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hip-88331
Variable starIts story
96 Herculis is a blue giant 940 light-years away —a B3 subgiant whose radius exceeds the Sun's by more than six times. Its incandescent surface, near 17,000 kelvin, emits mostly in blue and ultraviolet light —invisible to the eye, yet enough to tint its apparent glow indigo. Variable and part of a spectroscopic binary, it pulses with the urgency of massive stars that live fast.
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.25
- Distance
- 940.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 270.596° · Dec 20.834°
- Catalogue
- HIP 88331 · HD 164852
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