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hip-28992
Hot blue starIts story
Blue-white and hot in the small Columba, 1,019 light years away. The light reaching the southern European observer tonight set off around the year 1006, just as Chinese and Arab astronomers were recording supernova SN 1006, the brightest ever documented in history. Its B class places it among the young and energetic: a distant ember whose journey has lasted a thousand years.
- Constellation
- Columba
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 1019.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 91.765° · Dec -34.312°
- Catalogue
- HIP 28992 · HD 42054
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