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hip-39251
Its story
Within Puppis, the Stern of the ancient Ship Argo, shines an A-type white star 573 light-years away. Its light set out around 1453, the year Constantinople fell and the long chapter of the Byzantine Empire closed. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it spills a white radiance across the imaginary waters of the vessel that the ancients sailed through the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 573.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 120.406° · Dec -37.284°
- Catalogue
- HIP 39251 · HD 66358
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