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hip-54829
Hot blue starIts story
A blue type-B colossus burns in the Keel, Carina, 2,204 light-years away. Its light departed in deep Antiquity, when Caesar crossed the Rubicon and the Roman Republic was nearing its end. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, this star will live briefly and burn fiercely —a youthful blaze whose message has taken more than two millennia to land among our pupils.
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 2204.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 168.378° · Dec -59.619°
- Catalogue
- HIP 54829 · HD 97670
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