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Hot blue star

Its story

In the small southern constellation of Musca, this hot blue B-type star shines. Its light set out around 1681, when Edmond Halley was observing the comet that years later would bear his name. Musca was charted by Bayer in 1603 and originally named Apis (the bee) before its name changed: this star belongs to a sky mapped during the very renaissance of astronomy.

Constellation: Musca
Apparent magnitude: 5.89
Distance: 344.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 180.657° · Dec -69.192°
Catalogue: HIP 58720 · HD 104600

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