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hip-56480
Hot blue starIts story
A blue-white flame in Centaurus, tagged hot-blue for its scorching surface. Her light has been travelling more than 426 years: it set out before Galileo had ever turned his spyglass on the sky. Type B stars are rare and brief, burning their fuel in haste, seldom reaching the billions of years our Sun is granted.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.62
- Distance
- 426.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 173.690° · Dec -54.264°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56480 · HD 100673
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