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Chi-2
Variable starIts story
Chi-2 Hydrae is a blue-white B-type star lying some 693 light-years away, in the winding Hydra, the longest constellation in the sky. Its brightness varies with the discreet oscillations typical of hot stars that pulse slightly across their surface, a barely perceptible breathing. It sits in a part of the sky where the Milky Way grows faint and stars stand widely apart from one another.
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.69
- Distance
- 692.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 166.490° · Dec -27.288°
- Catalogue
- HIP 54255 · HD 96314
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