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hip-518
Variable starIts story
In the W of Cassiopeia pulses a yellow G-type star, almost a solar neighbor at about 70 light-years. Its light set out around 1956, the year Sputnik had yet to launch but Elvis's first LP was rolling off the presses and opening another era. It is variable: its brightness does not hold steady, but breathes slowly, as if it had a heartbeat of its own.
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.98
- Distance
- 70.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 1.565° · Dec 58.437°
- Catalogue
- HIP 518 · HD 123
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