hip-102177

Hot blue star

Its story

51 Cygni resides within the long summer Swan, some 1,274 light-years away. It is a blue B-type star —cosmically young, yet already forging heavier elements in its core. Its light parted from the photosphere around the 8th century and has travelled all that time parallel to the thousands of suns in the Orion arm, never striking one: a solitude only space knows how to tell.

Constellation: Cygnus
Apparent magnitude: 5.41
Distance: 1274.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 310.553° · Dec 50.340°
Catalogue: HIP 102177 · HD 197511

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