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hip-66666
Variable starIts story
In the immense Centaurus pulses a red variable star some 514 light-years away. Its light set out around 1512, when Michelangelo was finishing the vault of the Sistine Chapel and the Renaissance reached its summit. A cool giant, swollen to colossal proportions, its brightness waxes and wanes in a slow rhythm, like a stellar heart preparing for its final seasons.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 513.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 204.999° · Dec -49.950°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66666 · HD 118767
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