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In Vela, the sails of the ancient ship Argo, blazes a blue B-type star 480 light-years away. Its white-blue light, thousands of times more powerful than the Sun's, set out as Philip II ordered the Spanish Armada to sail toward England. It now reaches us as a cold, intense gleam among the celestial winds that eternally swell the sails drawn into the southern sky.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 480.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 130.073° · Dec -53.015°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42535 · HD 74196
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