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hip-50555
Variable starIts story
Deep within Vela beats a K-class variable whose light pulses with the slowness of ancient things. Some 1,850 light-years away, the glow arriving tonight set off in the High Middle Ages, while European monasteries were copying the last hand-lettered manuscripts before the printing press. It dims and brightens unnoticed —its own quiet breathing.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.59
- Distance
- 1853.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 154.903° · Dec -55.029°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50555 · HD 89682
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