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hip-104516
Hot blue starIts story
Unnamed in Cygnus, this hot blue star has been sending its light for 443 years. It set off when Galileo was still a young student in Pisa, long before he turned his glass to the sky. A massive B-type, many times hotter and brighter than the Sun, embedded in the bright river of the summer Milky Way that runs through the Swan's cross with a profusion of young stars and dust.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 443.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 317.565° · Dec 53.563°
- Catalogue
- HIP 104516 · HD 201834
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