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Peacock
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Hot blue starIts story
Peacock is the brightest star of Pavo, one of the southern constellations named by Dutch navigators in the late sixteenth century when they first charted the southern sky. It is a hot, young blue star, energetic and roughly 179 light-years away. Its modern name is unusual: the British Royal Air Force coined it in the 1930s for its air-navigation tables.
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.94
- Distance
- 178.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 306.412° · Dec -56.735°
- Catalogue
- HIP 100751 · HD 193924
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