hip-116582

Hot blue star

Its story

A hot blue B-class star in Andromeda, 807 light-years away. The light arriving tonight set out around 1219, when Genghis Khan was leading his horsemen into Central Asia and the political map of the world was being redrawn at a gallop. It shines near, in cosmic terms, the distant galaxy that names the constellation, without even suspecting the enormity behind it.

Constellation: Andromeda
Apparent magnitude: 5.81
Distance: 807.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 354.384° · Dec 44.429°
Catalogue: HIP 116582 · HD 222109

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