hip-18434

Hot blue star

Its story

In Perseus shines a blue class B star 867.6 light years away. Its light set out around the year 1158, while the abbess Hildegard of Bingen was composing her musical visions in the Rhineland. A star considerably hotter than the Sun, with an almost violet surface, whose light reaches us after centuries of silent travel through the interstellar void.

Constellation: Perseus
Apparent magnitude: 5.49
Distance: 867.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 59.120° · Dec 35.081°
Catalogue: HIP 18434 · HD 24640

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