hip-25291

Hot blue star

Its story

This blue light left Auriga around the year 1336, when the Hundred Years' War between France and England was beginning and Florence was becoming the cradle of the Renaissance. It is a B-type star, hot and bluish-white, very luminous. The Charioteer —with the bright Capella in its pentagon— has long been seen as a driver holding a goat and her kids.

Constellation: Auriga
Apparent magnitude: 5.94
Distance: 689.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 81.160° · Dec 31.143°
Catalogue: HIP 25291 · HD 35239

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