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Saiph
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Hot blue starIts story
Saiph closes off Orion at the lower-east corner, opposite the ruddy Betelgeuse. Its Arabic name means 'sword of the giant', and though it appears fainter than its siblings, it is in fact a colossal blue star burning far away — some 647 light-years off. The light reaching you tonight set out around the mid-fourteenth century, during the years of the Black Death in Europe.
- Constellation
- Orion
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.07
- Distance
- 647.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 86.939° · Dec -9.670°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27366 · HD 38771
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