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hip-36143
Hot blue starIts story
It glitters white-blue in Puppis, the stern of the old Argo Navis, about 1,032 light years away. Its light set out around the 11th century, when the Normans were conquering southern Italy and Persian astronomers were refining the Toledan Tables. B-type, its scorching surface radiates an almost diamond-like bluish white. A youthful spark traveling from so far to set its glow on the carved constellations of the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 1032.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 111.677° · Dec -34.141°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36143 · HD 59026
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