V Centauri
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v-centauri-277-16224803
title:
V Centauri
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V Centauri is a Classical Cepheid variable, a type of variable star, in the constellation Centaurus. It is approximately 2,350 light-years away based on parallax. V Centauri varies regularly between visual magnitudes 4.2 and 7.2 every 5.5 days. It is classified as a Cepheid variable on the basis of its light variations, with the brightness increase from minimum to maximum taking only a third of the time of the decrease from maximum to minimum. Cepheids are pulsating variable stars and V Centauri
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Variable star in the constellation Centaurus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_Centauri
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date modified:
2023-11-26T13:32:16Z
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