hip-41639

Hot blue star

Its story

It burns in Vela with the violent blue of class B stars, young and massive suns whose light has tones closer to electric fire than to solar yellow. Its glow arrived after a 2,609-year journey: when it set out, the troops of Alexander the Great had not yet crossed the Hellespont and republican Rome was just one Italian city among many. It lives fast, burns hard, and its brightness bears witness to a nuclear furnace far hotter than our Sun's.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.03
Distance: 2609.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 127.365° · Dec -44.725°
Catalogue: HIP 41639 · HD 72127

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