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Hot blue star

Its story

116 Tauri is a hot blue-white B-type star 424 light-years away, on the edges of the winter Bull. Its light, which now lives inside our telescopes, left its surface in Galileo's times. It is one of those youthful, energetic suns that light the night sky with an almost metallic blue, distant neighbours of the Pleiades yet outside their cluster.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.52
Distance: 424.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 81.940° · Dec 15.874°
Catalogue: HIP 25555 · HD 35770

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