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hip-40772
Variable starIts story
In the Great Bear shines a yellow star at 462 light years whose light departed around 1564, the year of Galileo Galilei's birth in Pisa. It is a variable class G star: its brightness changes over time following a slow heartbeat, a cosmic breathing that sets it apart from its solar relative and turns it into a restless beacon among the seven stars of the Plough.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.73
- Distance
- 462.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 124.822° · Dec 62.507°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40772 · HD 69148
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