hip-19376

Its story

In Taurus, where the Pleiades and Hyades gather, burns a blue-white B-type star four hundred six light years away. Its light departed around 1620, when the Mayflower pilgrims were landing at Plymouth and founding a new colony on the North Atlantic shore. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shines with a diaphanous glow in a region of the sky laden with young clusters, recalling the stellar youth that still animates the great arms of the Milky Way.