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hip-25950
Hot blue starIts story
In the deep marches of Taurus, nearly 3,000 light-years away, beats a young blue B-type star lost in one of the densest, dustiest regions of the firmament. Its light set out when, in the heart of the Middle Ages, the Andalusi caliphates were preserving Greek astronomy and translating Ptolemy. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, its glow travels nearly a millennium to meet us.
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.50
- Distance
- 2992.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 83.059° · Dec 17.058°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25950 · HD 36408
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