hip-5778

Hot blue star

Its story

87 Piscium is a hot blue B-type star 455 light-years away, a rarity in Pisces —a constellation dominated by cooler, older stars. Its surface comfortably exceeds ten thousand degrees, tinting its light with a distinctly bluish hue. The light arriving tonight left the star at the start of the 16th century, when Earth was still thought to be the centre of the cosmos.

Constellation: Pisces
Apparent magnitude: 5.97
Distance: 455.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 18.532° · Dec 16.133°
Catalogue: HIP 5778 · HD 7374

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