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hip-61658
Variable starIts story
A variable red giant in Virgo, the cosmic maiden. Its light has been travelling for 492 years: it left when Magellan was completing the first circumnavigation of the globe and Charles V ruled an empire where —it was said— the sun never set. An M-class star, cool and dilated, its brightness changes in a slow rhythm, the result of pulsations in its already aged atmosphere.
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.68
- Distance
- 492.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 189.593° · Dec 1.855°
- Catalogue
- HIP 61658 · HD 109896
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