hip-58326

Hot blue star

Its story

Its blue light left the Southern Cross around the year 1416, when Henry the Navigator was driving Portugal's first oceanic voyages and the Council of Constance was trying to reorder Christendom. It is a B-type star, hot and bluish-white, far more luminous than the Sun. The Cross was identified by European sailors as the finest compass of the southern sky.

Constellation: Crux
Apparent magnitude: 5.59
Distance: 610.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 179.417° · Dec -62.449°
Catalogue: HIP 58326 · HD 103884

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