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hip-32537
Hot blue starIts story
On the Stern of the ancient Ship glows a blue type-B star, far hotter than the Sun and edged with a cutting light. Its glow crossed 324 years of space: it set off as Bach had just taken up his post as organist in Arnstadt in 1703. Hung above the south, it looks like a cold spark struck from the hull of a vessel no one remembers any more.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 324.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 101.839° · Dec -37.930°
- Catalogue
- HIP 32537 · HD 49591
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