Ome

Hot blue star

Its story

Omega Fornacis burns with the deep blue of a hot B-type star, 484 light-years away within the Furnace —a late constellation also devised by Lacaille in honour of the chemist's furnace. Its modest naked-eye glow conceals a surface temperature several times that of the Sun and an evolutionary pace far swifter than that of yellow stars.

Constellation: Fornax
Apparent magnitude: 4.96
Distance: 484.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 38.461° · Dec -28.232°
Catalogue: HIP 11918 · HD 16046

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