hip-44299

Variable star

Its story

This blue light left Vela around the year 1597, when Tycho Brahe was refining his observations at Uraniborg and Shakespeare was staging his first tragedies in London. It is a variable B-type star, hot and bluish-white, whose brightness does not stay constant. Vela formed part of the ancient ship Argo, divided by Lacaille into more manageable pieces of the southern sky.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.56
Distance: 429.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 135.337° · Dec -41.864°
Catalogue: HIP 44299 · HD 77475

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