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hip-82650
Variable starIts story
In the sting of the Scorpion burns a red variable type-M star 756 light-years away. Its light departed in the thirteenth century, when Marco Polo set out for the court of Kublai Khan and Asia first reached Europe. Far cooler than the Sun yet immensely larger, its crimson glow pulses with the slowness of aged giants —a colossal ember in the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 756.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 253.427° · Dec -43.051°
- Catalogue
- HIP 82650 · HD 152161
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