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hip-87812
Variable starIts story
In Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, a blue B-class variable sun burns 1,359.2 light-years away. Its brightness is not constant: it vibrates as though the star itself were breathing. The light we see tonight departed when the Byzantine Empire still bore Constantinople as the capital of the world and gold-painted icons were considered windows into heaven.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 1359.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 269.077° · Dec 0.670°
- Catalogue
- HIP 87812 · HD 163472
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