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hip-29771
Hot blue starIts story
In the paws of Canis Major burns a blue B-type sun whose light set out 779 years ago. When it began its journey, Thomas Aquinas was drafting the Summa Theologica and medieval universities were consolidating as centres of learning. Far more massive and scorching than our Sun, its bluish glow acts as a cool accent in the region of sky ruled by Sirius, the brightest star of all the earthly night.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 778.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 94.032° · Dec -16.618°
- Catalogue
- HIP 29771 · HD 43544
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