hip-94013

Variable star

Its story

In the plumage of the Swan pulses an orange giant of changing brightness, 232 light-years away. Its light departed around 1794, when the Chappe brothers were inaugurating in France the world's first optical telegraph network. K-type variables are aged hearts: they breathe slowly because their outer layers swell and cool in months-long cycles.

Constellation: Cygnus
Apparent magnitude: 5.88
Distance: 231.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 287.108° · Dec 52.426°
Catalogue: HIP 94013 · HD 179094

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