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hip-34339
Hot blue starIts story
Within the ship of Puppis, 777 light-years away, glows a young blue B-type star nearly lost in the dense strip of the southern Milky Way. Its light set out when, around 1249, Alfonso X of Castile was preparing his Alfonsine Tables and gathering scholars to rewrite the map of the heavens. Far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its surface gleams with an almost violet blue.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 776.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 106.779° · Dec -40.893°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34339 · HD 54475
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