hip-21323

Hot blue star

Its story

In Taurus burns a hot blue star some 485 light-years away. Its light set out around 1541, as Spanish conquistadors were founding Santiago de Chile and Calvin was preaching reform in Geneva. Its blue-white surface far exceeds ten thousand degrees —a young, vehement star that will live only a brief flash on the scale of cosmic time.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.88
Distance: 485.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 68.658° · Dec 28.961°
Catalogue: HIP 21323 · HD 28929

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