hip-107374

Hot blue star

Its story

Nearly three thousand light years away in Cepheus: the light reaching us today from this rare hot O-type star set off around the year 967, in the heyday of the Cordoban caliphate and as Byzantium was reclaiming ground from the Arabs. O-type stars are the hottest and most massive in the spectral catalogue, rare and extremely short-lived in cosmic terms. To see one is to glimpse an uncommon object.

Constellation: Cepheus
Apparent magnitude: 5.94
Distance: 2992.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 326.222° · Dec 62.461°
Catalogue: HIP 107374 · HD 207198

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