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hip-42614
Hot blue starIts story
In the Sail of the ancient ship Argo burns a hot blue star nearly 1977 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 49, when Saint Paul was undertaking his missionary journeys around the Aegean and the Roman Empire lived under Claudius. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, this youthful beacon will burn through its hydrogen in a cosmological breath, leaving behind a luminous void.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 1977.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 130.272° · Dec -48.923°
- Catalogue
- HIP 42614 · HD 74273
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