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hip-88149
Variable starIts story
66 Ophiuchi is a variable blue B-type star 651 light-years away, deep inside vast Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer straddling the celestial equator. Its brightness is not constant: it shifts subtly, the fingerprint of pulsations or gas ejections common in hot B stars whose surfaces hover near 20,000 degrees. It belongs to a region of sky thick with young clusters and dark nebulae.
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.79
- Distance
- 651.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 270.066° · Dec 4.369°
- Catalogue
- HIP 88149 · HD 164284
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