hip-26215

Hot blue star

Its story

In Orion, above the most celebrated stellar belt in the sky, burns a blue class B star some 1121 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 904, when Abbasid astronomers in Baghdad were refining tables and translating Ptolemy's Almagest into Arabic. Hot and luminous, this beacon belongs to the family of young giants that sculpt nebulae and draw the great reliefs of Orion.

Constellation: Orion
Apparent magnitude: 5.60
Distance: 1121.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 83.805° · Dec 10.240°
Catalogue: HIP 26215 · HD 36881

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