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Hot blue star

Its story

In Cepheus, beside the mythic king of the northern sky, burns a very hot blue B-type star about 1510 light-years away. Its light departed around the year 516, while Boethius was writing «The Consolation of Philosophy» amid the ruins of the Western Roman Empire. Its surface comfortably exceeds ten thousand degrees, far from the Sun's tempered glow.

Constellation: Cepheus
Apparent magnitude: 5.53
Distance: 1510.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 322.747° · Dec 60.459°
Catalogue: HIP 106227 · HD 205139

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