hip-38846

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In the Stern of the ship Argo —a fragment of a constellation too vast for a single name— burns a blue star 1,568 light-years away. Its light departed around the year 458, when Genseric was sacking Rome and the ancient order was collapsing for good. B-type giants are brief furnaces: they burn their hydrogen so voraciously that they scarcely live a hundred million years, against the Sun's ten thousand.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.36
Distance: 1568.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 119.241° · Dec -43.500°
Catalogue: HIP 38846 · HD 65460

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