hip-37043

Its story

It belongs to Puppis and burns with the deep blue of the hottest B-class stars, those that populate young clusters and the spiral arms of the galaxy. Its light set out some 463 years ago, when the shipyards of Seville were readying the fleets crossing the Atlantic toward the New World and Philip II was ascending the Spanish throne. It is a star dozens of times hotter and thousands of times more luminous than the Sun. It stands among the blue beacons studding the ancient ship Argo across the southern sky.