hip-40357

Hot blue star

Its story

Within the sails of the ancient celestial ship, 1,181 light-years away, burns a blue type-B star whose light departed in the heart of the Middle Ages, when copyist monks illuminated manuscripts at silent desks. Its surface comfortably exceeds ten thousand degrees and its brilliance equals hundreds of suns combined. It is a young, hot star, its bluish hue betraying a voracious metabolism: it burns intensely in exchange for a brief life. Its light reaches us as an echo of the first millennium.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.86
Distance: 1181.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 123.599° · Dec -45.835°
Catalogue: HIP 40357 · HD 69302

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