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hip-50191
Its story
A white A-type light pulses in Vela at just over a hundred light years —a distance whose photons left during the jazz age and the first transatlantic flights. Modest to the naked eye, it hides an atmosphere far hotter than the Sun's. It shines in a southern region threaded by the debris of ancient stellar explosions, a dense neighbourhood of fossil light.
- Constellation
- Vela
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.85
- Distance
- 101.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 153.684° · Dec -42.122°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50191 · HD 88955
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