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hip-38518
Hot blue starIts story
Aboard the celestial ship of Puppis, a young blue B-type star burns 1,656 light-years away, hurling out a stellar wind that sweeps everything in its path. Its light set out toward us when Tamerlane's empire was crumbling across Central Asia, around the year 370. It weighs several times more than the Sun and devours its fuel at a furious pace, condemned to a brief, brilliant life.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.22
- Distance
- 1655.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 118.326° · Dec -48.103°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38518 · HD 64760
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