hip-20804

Hot blue star

Its story

Hot blue in Taurus, 587 light years away, far from the Pleiades but sharing their youthful temperature. The light crossing the winter sky tonight set out around 1438, when Gutenberg in Mainz was refining the principles of his movable-type press. A B-class star with no known companions: a blue beacon, solitary, within the Bull's herd.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.87
Distance: 587.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 66.870° · Dec 11.212°
Catalogue: HIP 20804 · HD 28217

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