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hip-52678
Hot blue starIts story
In Carina, part of the ancient celestial ship Argo, a blue B-type star burns at about 476 light-years. Its light began its journey around 1550, when Gutenberg s press was already reshaping the circulation of knowledge and European astronomers were preparing the ground for Galileo. Far hotter and brighter than the Sun, it emits an intense bluish-white glow, characteristic of young, short-lived stars.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.33
- Distance
- 476.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 161.569° · Dec -64.515°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52678 · HD 93540
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