BL Herculis
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bl-herculis-0-18380424
title:
BL Herculis
text:
BL Herculis is a variable star in the northern constellation of Hercules. Its apparent visual magnitude ranges from 9.70 to 10.62, so it is never bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, even with ideal observing conditions. Its distance from the Sun is about 3,850 light-years, and it is moving away from us at 18 km/sec. It is the prototype of the BL Herculis class of variable star, a short-period subset of the pulsating Cepheid variables. The variability of BL Herculis was discovered by Cun
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description:
Variable star in the constellation Hercules
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_Herculis
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date modified:
2023-08-13T04:12:40Z
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13
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