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Hot blue star

Its story

In Microscopium —a constellation drawn by Lacaille in the eighteenth century from the Cape of Good Hope— a hot blue B-type star casts its light from about three hundred and twenty-five light years away. The photon reaching us today was born around the reign of Louis XIV, when Versailles was setting Europe's baroque template. Its instrumental name shelters a fire far fiercer than the Sun's.

Constellation: Microscopium
Apparent magnitude: 5.48
Distance: 324.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 311.584° · Dec -39.199°
Catalogue: HIP 102497 · HD 197630

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