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hip-52043
Variable starIts story
In Carina, a blue variable star of class B travels in from some 1006 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 1019, when Avicenna in Persia was completing his Canon of Medicine, a work that would dominate European faculties for six centuries. The beacon, young and hot, does not always shine with the same intensity: small pulsations modulate its light, reminders of the inner tensions that rattle freshly formed giants.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89
- Distance
- 1006.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 159.511° · Dec -57.256°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52043 · HD 92287
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