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hip-41621
Hot blue starIts story
Vela appears again, this time with a blue-white B-type star at extreme temperatures, at the astonishing distance of 1431 light-years. Its light set out around the sixth century, when Justinian was issuing in Constantinople the Corpus Iuris Civilis that would underpin Western law. What a human pupil perceives as a bluish point at magnitude 5.82 is in fact a flame vibrating since late antiquity.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.82
- Distance
- 1430.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 127.282° · Dec -44.160°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41621 · HD 72067
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