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hip-57851
Hot blue starIts story
Within the tiny southern Fly, nearly invisible to northern observers, beats a young blue B-type star 362 light-years away. Its light set out when Newton was still publishing in Cambridge and refracting telescopes were beginning to unveil the southern firmament. Hot, with a surface near 14,000 degrees, it comfortably exceeds the Sun in mass and radiation.
- Constellation
- Musca
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.89
- Distance
- 362.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 177.964° · Dec -65.206°
- Catalogue
- HIP 57851 · HD 103079
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