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hip-93996
Variable starIts story
Nearly 1,300 light-years away, in the dense heart of Sagittarius, this blue-white variable pulses on. Its light kindled around the eighth century, during the expansion of the Umayyad caliphate and Charlemagne s empire, when Arab astronomers were translating Ptolemy. It is a hot B-class star —the kind that burns briefly and leaves a mark— still vibrating in the night-time eye.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 1294.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 287.070° · Dec -19.290°
- Catalogue
- HIP 93996 · HD 178175
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