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hip-44337
Variable starIts story
In Vela, 368.6 light-years away, a white A-class sun breathes with a slow pulse: it is a variable star, its brightness shifting through time as though the light itself hesitated. The radiation seen tonight departed when Newton was publishing the Principia and rewriting the mechanics of the cosmos. A discreet throb crossing exactly three centuries to reach the human eye.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.23
- Distance
- 368.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 135.436° · Dec -52.189°
- Catalogue
- HIP 44337 · HD 77653
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