hip-24505

Hot blue star

Its story

One of the blue gems of Lepus, the hare forever fleeing beneath Orion. Its light set off 278 years ago, when the French Encyclopaedists were gathering the knowledge of the world and Linnaeus was ordering living nature. A B-class star —hot, massive, intensely blue— its brilliance is far more energetic than the Sun's and will last only a few tens of millions of years.

Constellation: Lepus
Apparent magnitude: 5.06
Distance: 278.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 78.852° · Dec -26.944°
Catalogue: HIP 24505 · HD 34310

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