hip-42679

Variable star

Its story

This one does not belong to our galaxy. At 326,000 light-years, leaning on the edge of Vela, its light flickers —it is variable— and travelled across intergalactic space throughout the whole of human prehistory. When it set out, the first Homo sapiens had not yet crossed from Africa into Eurasia. A blue-white survivor reaching us as a faint rumour of the deep sky.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.20
Distance: 326200.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 130.487° · Dec -45.411°
Catalogue: HIP 42679 · HD 74371

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