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hip-46594
Hot blue starIts story
Within the sails of Vela, 433 light-years away, throbs a young blue B-type star with an intense, almost violet glow. Its light set out toward us when Philip II ruled an empire on which the sun never set and the great armada of 1588 was being planned. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, it burns its fuel with the haste typical of blue stars.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 432.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.521° · Dec -51.517°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46594 · HD 82419
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