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hip-42129
Hot blue starIts story
In the southern Carina the keel burns a blue B-type star whose light has traveled 896 years: it set out while the University of Paris was receiving its first pontifical statutes. Hot and massive, it surpasses the Sun in both size and temperature and pours forth a cold, electric light that recalls lightning before a storm.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.27
- Distance
- 896.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 128.815° · Dec -58.225°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42129 · HD 73390
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