hip-37322

Hot blue star

Its story

In Puppis, another piece of the mythical ship Argo, this hot blue B-type star shines. Its light set out around 1454, when Gutenberg was printing the first Bibles with movable type in Mainz, forever revolutionising the transmission of knowledge. The intense blue of B-type stars reveals surface temperatures above 10,000 degrees: a silent fury made of hydrogen fused under pressure.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.73
Distance: 572.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 114.933° · Dec -38.139°
Catalogue: HIP 37322 · HD 61878

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