Ups

Its story

Upsilon Pavonis is a hot blue B-type star, some 786 light-years away in the southern Peacock. Its surface comfortably exceeds 10,000 degrees and emits a blue-white light that has been travelling since the time when Europe's first universities began teaching astronomy from the Arabic texts translated in Toledo. It is a very young star in cosmic terms, barely a quick flash in the history of the galaxy, and it will exhaust its fuel long before the small red dwarfs around it.