hip-47963

Hot blue star

Its story

In Vela, some 998 light-years away, burns this blue type B star, one of the hottest beacons in the catalogue. Its light set out around 1027, when Arab-Andalusian civilisation was refining astronomy with bronze instruments and the caliphates mapped the heavens with precision. Far hotter, more massive and more luminous than the Sun, it shines with the clean hardness of molten sapphire.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.58
Distance: 997.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 146.627° · Dec -44.755°
Catalogue: HIP 47963 · HD 84816

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