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hip-45080
Variable starIts story
It pulses with its own rhythm in the keel of Carina, a blue-white variable whose light takes nearly 447 years to reach us. The flicker reaching the telescope tonight left the star while Galileo first aimed his spyglass at the Paduan sky. Its brightness breathes without rest, reminding us that stars too have a heartbeat.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.43
- Distance
- 446.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 137.742° · Dec -58.967°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45080 · HD 79351
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