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hip-56754
Hot blue starIts story
In the vast reaches of Centaurus burns a fiercely hot blue star roughly 285 light-years away. Its light set out around 1741, as Bach composed his final works and the French encyclopedists envisioned a new order of knowledge. Its surface far exceeds ten thousand degrees —a blue-white furnace that will live only a cosmic instant before consuming itself in its own fury.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.15
- Distance
- 285.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 174.531° · Dec -61.827°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56754 · HD 101189
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