hip-27747

Hot blue star

Its story

A hot blue B-class star in Orion, 1,121 light-years away—one point among the thousands that populate that unmistakable hunter. The light crossing our atmosphere tonight set out around the year 905, at the height of the Caliphate of Córdoba, when al-Andalus was translating Ptolemy and observing the sky with ever finer instruments. A small blue bonfire in the most memorable of celestial frames.

Constellation: Orion
Apparent magnitude: 5.96
Distance: 1121.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 88.098° · Dec 19.868°
Catalogue: HIP 27747 · HD 39286

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