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Hot blue star

Its story

In Puppis, the Stern of the ancient ship Argo broken into southern constellations, shines a hot, luminous blue star. Its light set out around 1433, deep in the early Renaissance, when Zheng He's Chinese fleet was concluding its seventh voyage through the Indian Ocean. Far more massive and hotter than the Sun, it embodies the violent youth of blue stars.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.86
Distance: 592.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 109.518° · Dec -43.987°
Catalogue: HIP 35347 · HD 57197

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