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hip-40943
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Nearly fifteen hundred light years separate this blue B-type giant from Earth: its light departed while Justinian was issuing the Corpus Iuris Civilis in Constantinople. It dwells in the ship Puppis and burns at temperatures several times those of the Sun, painting that bluish hue characteristic of the hottest and most youthful suns.
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.18
- Distance
- 1489.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 125.338° · Dec -36.484°
- Catalogue
- HIP 40943 · HD 70556
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