hip-36236

Hot blue star

Its story

Hot and blue on the stern of Puppis, 965 light years away. The light brushing the southern sky tonight set off around the year 1061, when the Tower of Pisa was being erected, still straight — its lean would come later, with the centuries. Hot-blue by temperature: a B-class star whose surface burns with cutting brilliance even after a journey of nearly a millennium.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.98
Distance: 965.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 111.929° · Dec -22.859°
Catalogue: HIP 36236 · HD 59136

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