hip-40240

Its story

15 Cancri is a blue variable star, a rarity in the modest zodiacal constellation of the Crab, famed for hosting the open cluster of the Beehive. Its B classification places it among the hottest stars catalogued for the unaided eye, and the slow oscillation of its brightness adds a subtle pulse to the sky. Its light crosses nearly six hundred and eighty-four years before reaching us.