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hip-32474
Hot blue starIts story
Another blue B-type in Monoceros, this time at 540 light-years. Its light set out around 1486, just before Columbus reached the Caribbean and the printing press was multiplying books across Europe. It is an electric surface, far hotter than the Sun, tucked inside a modern constellation that goes unnoticed between the giants of Orion and Canis Major.
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.66
- Distance
- 540.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 101.663° · Dec -10.107°
- Catalogue
- HIP 32474 · HD 49147
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