Iot

Hot blue star

Its story

Iota Andromedae is a blue-white star that traces the northern end of the chain forming the silhouette of the bound princess, near the Great Square of Pegasus. Hot and young, it shines from some five hundred light-years away with a surface above eleven thousand degrees. Its light set out when Luther nailed his theses to the door at Wittenberg and the religious map of Europe began to fracture.

Constellation: Andromeda
Apparent magnitude: 4.29
Distance: 499.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 354.534° · Dec 43.268°
Catalogue: HIP 116631 · HD 222173

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