Nu

Hot blue star

Its story

Nu Andromedae is a hot blue B-type star whose light has been travelling through space for nearly 618 years. Its visual importance for astronomers is indirect and famous: it lies very close, in projection, to the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, serving as the launch point for finding the spiral system nearest to the Milky Way with the unaided eye. A stellar beacon that points, unknowing, toward a realm of a hundred billion suns.

Constellation: Andromeda
Apparent magnitude: 4.53
Distance: 617.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 12.454° · Dec 41.079°
Catalogue: HIP 3881 · HD 4727

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