hip-26199

Its story

At 1614 light-years burns a blue sun of class B, lodged within Orion, the celestial hunter. Its light set out when the kingdoms of late medieval Europe were charting trade routes beneath the same sky. Tens of thousands of degrees ignite its surface, pouring out an ultraviolet brilliance that betrays youth and inner violence. It pulses near the belt of a mythological colossus, anchored to the northern winter.