hip-49934

Variable star

Its story

In Carina, a fragment of the ancient celestial ship Argo, lives this hot blue B-type variable. Its light set out around the year 752, when Charlemagne was still a child and the Umayyad caliphate had just fallen to the Abbasids. Variable B-type stars are huge, volatile bodies capable of measurably changing their brightness; to observe them is to glimpse the violent youth of the galaxy.

Constellation: Carina
Apparent magnitude: 5.70
Distance: 1274.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 152.944° · Dec -58.061°
Catalogue: HIP 49934 · HD 88661

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