hip-17563

Hot blue star

Its story

29 Tauri burns hot and blue across the Bull, on the same celestial latitude as the Pleiades. It is a B-type star, far more massive and far younger than the Sun, whose colour betrays a surface above ten thousand degrees. Its light crosses 534 years before reaching our eyes —it left when Charles V signed the abdication that split his empire in two.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.34
Distance: 533.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 56.419° · Dec 6.050°
Catalogue: HIP 17563 · HD 23466

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