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Hot blue star

Its story

In Vela, fragment of the ancient ship Argo, shines a blue-white B-type sun, far hotter than our own. Its light set sail around 843 years ago, when late-Romanesque frescoes decorated European churches and Persian astronomers were drafting star tables of astonishing precision. It arrives now untouched, like a sealed message passed between eras.

Constellation: Vela
Apparent magnitude: 5.09
Distance: 842.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 147.488° · Dec -45.733°
Catalogue: HIP 48224 · HD 85355

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