RS Puppis

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RS Puppis (or RS Pup) is a Cepheid variable star around 6,000 ly away in the constellation of Puppis. It is one of the biggest and brightest known Cepheids in the Milky Way galaxy and has one of the longest periods for this class of star at 41.5 days.

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Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-Hubble/Europe Collab., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.