hip-96234

Variable star

Its story

A white A-type star pulses softly in Sagittarius, toward the very heart of the Milky Way. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wavers with a slow rhythm only instruments can detect. Its light set out some four centuries ago, when Kepler was formulating his laws of planetary motion and the heavens were turning from divine mystery into precise machinery. After 423 light-years, that throbbing glow arrives as a heartbeat faithful to the science that learned to count what orbits.

Constellation: Sagittarius
Apparent magnitude: 5.89
Distance: 423.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 293.535° · Dec -40.035°
Catalogue: HIP 96234 · HD 184035

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