hip-41074

Highly luminous star

Its story

In Puppis, a yellow-white star of extraordinary luminosity reaches us from so far away that its light precedes recorded history by far: it was already travelling through space when the first modern humans painted in the caves of the Paleolithic. It belongs to a rare lineage of stars that shine with the force of hundreds of thousands of suns, remote beacons lost in other regions of the galaxy.

Constellation: Puppis
Apparent magnitude: 5.88
Distance: 326200.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 125.708° · Dec -26.348°
Catalogue: HIP 41074 · HD 70761

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