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hip-37096
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In the hull of Puppis burns a blue B-type beacon, lying about 360 light-years away. Its light set out around 1666, when Newton was splitting sunlight through a prism in Cambridge —and is still traveling, cool and ancient, to this very moment. Its surface comfortably exceeds 10,000 degrees, a silent violence against the yellow warmth of the Sun.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.53
- Distance
- 360.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 114.342° · Dec -34.969°
- Catalogue
- HIP 37096 · HD 61330
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