Del-2

Its story

Delta-2 Chamaeleontis burns 350 light-years away in one of the most remote southern constellations, mapped in the sixteenth century by Dutch navigators filling the south circumpolar void. A hot blue-white B-type star, it belongs to the small quadrilateral of Chamaeleon, a figure that rises above the horizon only for observers at far southern latitudes. Its brilliance never reaches the European sky.