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hip-60979
Variable starIts story
In the steppes of Centaurus beats a red variable M-class star, whose light set out some 738 years ago, in the late Middle Ages, when the great illuminated European codices were being inscribed. Variable M stars are unstable elders: swollen, cool giants that expand and contract in long cycles, slowly losing their matter into space as a gentle stellar wind.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 738.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 187.491° · Dec -41.736°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60979 · HD 108759
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