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hip-52468
Variable starIts story
It pulses with an uneven beat in Carina, keel of the southern sky. A variable orange star 1,140 light-years away —the glow we see now departed when Pope Urban II was calling the First Crusade at Clermont in 1095. K giants like this one do not fade; they breathe, swelling and contracting in cycles that can stretch over months.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.58
- Distance
- 1140.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 160.885° · Dec -60.567°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52468 · HD 93070
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