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Sheliak
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Variable starIts story
Sheliak, beta Lyrae, is an eclipsing variable 962 light-years away: two stars so close that they transfer matter and obscure one another with clockwork regularity. Her name comes from the Arabic «al-shilyāq», 'the harp', one of the few musical references that survive in the stellar catalogue. Her light departed around the year 1064, almost when the Crab supernova was illuminating Chinese skies.
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.52
- Distance
- 962.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 282.520° · Dec 33.363°
- Catalogue
- HIP 92420 · HD 174638
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