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Chi
Hot blue starIts story
Chi Aurigae is a blue supergiant of extreme luminosity, lying at an unusually vast distance for a star still visible to the naked eye. So hot that its bluish surface radiates chiefly in the ultraviolet, and so massive that its lifespan is measured in only a few million years. A solitary beacon in Auriga, shining with the energy equivalent of tens of thousands of suns.
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.71
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 83.182° · Dec 32.192°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25984 · HD 36371
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