hip-67669

Variable star

Its story

3 Centauri is a blue B-type star whose brightness does not stay still: it oscillates faintly over time, a stellar breathing that astronomers catalogue as variability. Its light crosses more than three hundred and forty years of space before reaching us, arriving from one of the oldest constellations of the southern hemisphere. In the sky it appears discreet, yet its nature —hot, massive, restless— places it among the young and violent inhabitants of the southern Milky Way.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 4.32
Distance: 343.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 207.957° · Dec -32.994°
Catalogue: HIP 67669 · HD 120709

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