Phi-1

Hot blue star

Its story

Phi-1 Orionis is a blue B-type star more than a thousand light-years away, set in the head of the Hunter. It belongs to the dynamic Orion OB1 complex, a fertile region of young suns and bright nebulae that gave birth to many of the stars sketching out winter's most recognisable silhouette. Its raw, hot light travelled for a millennium before reaching human eyes.

Constellation: Orion
Apparent magnitude: 4.39
Distance: 1087.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 83.705° · Dec 9.490°
Catalogue: HIP 26176 · HD 36822

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