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hip-49712
Hot blue starIts story
In the southern constellation of Vela burns a blue-white beacon 1,331 light-years from Earth. Its light set off when Europe was crossing the High Middle Ages and Benedictine monasteries copied manuscripts by tallow candlelight. It is a class B star, massive and hot, with a surface above 10,000 K. It lives fast: it will exhaust its hydrogen in a fraction of the time the Sun will spend doing the same.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85
- Distance
- 1331.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 152.234° · Dec -51.811°
- Catalogue
- HIP 49712 · HD 88206
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