hip-40274

Variable star

Its story

A blue-white B-class sun burns in the Stern with the quiet fury of young stars. Its light set out more than nine hundred years ago, when Europe was raising its first Gothic cathedrals and trade roads were threading the continent. Variable and hot, it multiplies the Sun in temperature and output, offering the night a gleam that reaches us late yet arrives just in time to astonish.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 4.78
Distance: 929.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 123.373° · Dec -35.900°
Catalogue: HIP 40274 · HD 68980

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