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hip-79754
Variable starIts story
In the modest constellation of Norma, low in the southern sky, beats a variable red giant some 775 light-years away. Its light set out when medieval Europe was waging its last crusades and Italian painters were discovering perspective. Cool and reddish, its brightness rises and falls in long pulsations —as if breathing with infinite patience in a quiet corner of the firmament.
- Constellation
- Norma
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 774.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.180° · Dec -53.811°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79754 · HD 146003
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