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Eta
Variable starIts story
Eta Centauri is a blue star spinning at over 330 km/s, close to the speed at which it would tear itself apart. That ferocious rotation flings gas from its equator into a circumstellar disc that flickers in and out of brightness across many seasons. It burns with roughly 8,700 times the Sun's light from a surface near 25,700 K, 306 light-years away in the flank of the Centaur.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.33
- Distance
- 305.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 218.877° · Dec -42.158°
- Catalogue
- HIP 71352 · HD 127972
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