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hip-117265
Hot blue starIts story
High in Cepheus, the northern king, burns a blue-white B-type star, young and vastly hotter than the Sun. Its light set out close to 1,490 years ago, when Hagia Sophia was rising in Constantinople and the Byzantine empire was weaving a luminous bridge between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It arrives now with the clean edge of a bluish sun that has crossed fifteen centuries without losing its character.
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 1489.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 356.653° · Dec 66.782°
- Catalogue
- HIP 117265 · HD 223128
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