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Hot blue star

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2 Ceti opens the long body of the sea monster with a faint blue glow, set in a stretch of sky almost empty of bright neighbours. It belongs to the B class —the realm of very hot, short-lived suns— and pours out radiation that takes nearly three centuries to reach us. To the eye it is a modest spark; in nature, a colossal furnace.

Constellation: Cetus
Apparent magnitude: 4.55
Distance: 272.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 0.935° · Dec -17.336°
Catalogue: HIP 301 · HD 225132

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