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Hot blue starIts story
It shines in Volans, the flying fish, a southern constellation imagined in the 16th century by navigators crossing the Indian Ocean. A fierce blue B-type star, far hotter than the Sun —its surface exceeding 15,000 degrees. Its light set out some 492 years ago, when Hernán Cortés and the conquistadors were entering Tenochtitlán. A young, violent beacon in the deep southern skies.
- Constellation
- Volans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78
- Distance
- 492.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 117.421° · Dec -66.196°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38210 · HD 64484
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