hip-38020

Hot blue star

Its story

More than fifteen hundred light years stretch between this blue star of Puppis and the terrestrial eye. The light observed today set off in the early Middle Ages, when Christian kingdoms were reclaiming northern Iberia and Byzantium still held a foothold in Italy. It belongs to the hot, young, massive B-types, destined to end their lives in a brief and violent spiral.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.22
Distance: 1568.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 116.881° · Dec -46.608°
Catalogue: HIP 38020 · HD 63578

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