hip-42001

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Its story

In southern Vela burns this blue B-type star at 834 light-years. Its light set out around the year 1192, when Saladin and Richard the Lionheart agreed to a truce in the Holy Land at the close of the Third Crusade. It is a blue-white furnace far hotter than the Sun, a luminous fragment of the ancient ship Argo, dismantled by modern astronomers.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.92
Distance: 834.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 128.410° · Dec -38.849°
Catalogue: HIP 42001 · HD 72832

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