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Nu
Variable starIts story
Nu Fornacis is a blue-white B-type variable star about 371 light-years away, in the modest constellation of the Furnace. Its brightness ripples gently because it pulsates in the manner of slowly pulsating B (SPB) stars, a class of medium-mass pulsators identified only in recent decades. Each cycle lasts hours or days, not years: this star breathes on an almost human timescale.
- Constellation
- Fornax
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.68
- Distance
- 371.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 31.123° · Dec -29.297°
- Catalogue
- HIP 9677 · HD 12767
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