hip-20789

Hot blue star

Its story

72 Tauri is a blue B-type star about 378 light-years away, in the same patch of the Bull that hosts the Hyades and the Pleiades. Its blue-white colour betrays a very hot surface, and its swift youthful rotation links it to the great stellar associations of the region. Small and discreet, it seems to float among the named giants of antiquity without ever asking to be noticed.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.53
Distance: 378.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 66.823° · Dec 22.996°
Catalogue: HIP 20789 · HD 28149

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