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hip-31037
Hot blue starIts story
On the flank of the Greater Dog, near where loyal Sirius shines, burns a very distant blue star, 1,231 light-years away. Its light departed around the year 795, when Charlemagne was reorganising Europe from Aachen and the Vikings struck Lindisfarne for the first time. Very hot B-types are furious embers: sometimes they mark the exact place where a mother nebula saw them born.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 1230.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 97.693° · Dec -27.770°
- Catalogue
- HIP 31037 · HD 46189
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