hip-4903

Its story

39 Andromedae is a peculiar Am-type star: its atmosphere shows anomalous chemical abundances, with metals in excess and lighter elements depleted, the result of slow rotation that allows the elements to settle. It shines at 350 light-years within Andromeda, the chained princess of the autumn sky, famous for hosting the nearest galaxy to our own. Its light departed around the start of the seventeenth century.