hip-25751

Hot blue star

Its story

Its blue light left Orion around the year 595, when Saint Isidore was composing his encyclopedias in Visigothic Seville and Byzantium was defending its borders against Persia. It is a B-type star, hot and bluish-white, part of the vast region of young stars that gathers at the hunter's feet. Orion is probably the grandest and most recognisable constellation of the winter sky.

Constellation: Orion
Apparent magnitude: 5.77
Distance: 1430.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 82.478° · Dec 1.789°
Catalogue: HIP 25751 · HD 36166

Take your star to the gift that suits you best.

Choose a tier

Symbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.