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hip-43589
Hot blue starIts story
In Vela, the sail of the ancient Argo, burns a blue-white B-type star whose light set out around the year 987, at the height of the Caliphate of Córdoba. Far hotter, more massive and more luminous than the Sun, it radiates with the intensity of very young stars. More than a thousand years of travel to arrive as a glacial flash in the southern hemisphere of the sky.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.92
- Distance
- 1038.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 133.161° · Dec -48.359°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43589 · HD 76161
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