hip-18213

Hot blue star

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Another blue of Eridanus, hot and young in cosmic terms, 346 light-years off. B-type stars like this one trace the spiral arms of the galaxy with their violent light. The beam arriving tonight left when Newton was publishing his Principia Mathematica and rewriting the mechanics of the entire sky.

Constellation: Eridanus
Apparent magnitude: 5.11
Distance: 346.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 58.412° · Dec -34.732°
Catalogue: HIP 18213 · HD 24626

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