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hip-80945
Variable starIts story
A distant inhabitant of Scorpius, more than two thousand seven hundred light-years away, this B-type blue supergiant varies its brightness softly, as if breathing. Its light departed when Tutankhamun still reigned over New Kingdom Egypt, in the 14th century BCE. Hot and variable, it pulses at the tip of the sting with a cadence no human eye can grasp in a single night.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.31
- Distance
- 2718.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 247.924° · Dec -41.817°
- Catalogue
- HIP 80945 · HD 148688
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