hip-114389

Hot blue star

Its story

58 Pegasi burns with blue B-class light some 810 light-years away, within the summer quadrangle of Pegasus. B stars are young, very hot suns, with surface temperatures several times that of our own and brief lives on a cosmic scale. The radiation reaching observers tonight left during the twelfth century, when Europe s great Gothic cathedrals were rising.

Constellation: Pegasus
Apparent magnitude: 5.39
Distance: 809.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 347.506° · Dec 9.822°
Catalogue: HIP 114389 · HD 218700

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