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hip-8593
Variable starIts story
In southern Phoenix, the bird reborn from its ashes, pulses a white A-type variable at 251 light-years. Its light set out around 1774, when the American colonies were beginning to defy the British Empire and the first spark of their independence was being struck. Hotter than the Sun and an intense white, its brightness wavers gently —a discreet pulse amid the celestial plumage.
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.94
- Distance
- 251.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 27.727° · Dec -50.206°
- Catalogue
- HIP 8593 · HD 11413
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