Elkurud

The

Hot blue star

Its story

Elkurud lives in Columba, 'the dove', the constellation invented in the sixteenth century to represent the bird Noah released from the ark. It is a hot blue star, distant: 722 light-years away. The light crossing the southern sky tonight set out around 1304, in the heart of the Middle Ages, when Marco Polo was dictating in Genoa the account of his travels to China.

Constellation: Columba
Apparent magnitude: 5.00
Distance: 721.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 91.882° · Dec -37.253°
Catalogue: HIP 29034 · HD 42167

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