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hip-35180
Its story
In Canis Major, beside the great celestial hound that follows Orion, shines a white star of blazing surface. Its light set out around 1757, when Voltaire was publishing his philosophical broadsides across the Europe of the Enlightenment. More massive and far hotter than the Sun, it embodies that stellar youth which burns fast and very bright.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.46
- Distance
- 269.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 109.061° · Dec -15.586°
- Catalogue
- HIP 35180 · HD 56405
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