Bet

Hot blue star

Its story

Beta Sculptoris is a hot blue-white type-B star sitting in one of the most modest constellations of the southern sky: the Sculptor's Workshop, sketched in the eighteenth century by the Abbé Lacaille during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. Its light crosses some 174 light-years, traversing a region of sky nearly empty of bright stars, where the Milky Way barely whispers.

Constellation: Sculptor
Apparent magnitude: 4.38
Distance: 174.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 353.243° · Dec -37.818°
Catalogue: HIP 116231 · HD 221507

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