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hip-51576
Variable starIts story
It pulses with an almost imperceptible rhythm in the southern hull of Carina, a blue-white B-class variable whose light took 483 years to reach us. The light we see tonight set out as the Dutch were signing the Twelve Years Truce with Spain, and Galileo first turned his spyglass toward the sky. Its flicker is faint, yet Hipparcos detectors registered it without hesitation.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.30
- Distance
- 483.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 158.006° · Dec -61.685°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51576 · HD 91465
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