hip-15404

Hot blue star

Its story

29 Persei is a blue B-type star burning about 637 light-years away in the constellation of the hero who slew Medusa. Its surface reaches temperatures far above the Sun's and pours out the blue-tinged radiation characteristic of massive suns. It sits near the main outline of Perseus, in a stretch of sky threaded with old open clusters and rich in recent star formation.

Constellation: Perseus
Apparent magnitude: 5.16
Distance: 637.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 49.657° · Dec 50.222°
Catalogue: HIP 15404 · HD 20365

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