hip-26868

Variable star

Its story

In modest Columba —the dove released by Noah, according to sixteenth-century cartographers— shines this B-type variable, bluish-white and hot. The light we see tonight set out 428 years ago: as it left, Cervantes had just returned from his captivity in Algiers and had not yet dreamt up Don Quixote.

Constellation: Columba
Apparent magnitude: 5.29
Distance: 428.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 85.563° · Dec -34.668°
Catalogue: HIP 26868 · HD 38170

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