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Hot blue starIts story
In tiny Musca, a modern constellation of the southern sky, glows a blue B-type star at 403 light-years —far enough that its light departed when Newton published the «Principia» in 1687. It is a blue-white furnace several times hotter than the Sun, stitched to an austral corner that Renaissance European navigators named while charting southern skies for the first time.
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.09
- Distance
- 403.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 170.839° · Dec -64.955°
- Catalogue
- HIP 55597 · HD 99103
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