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Rho
Hot blue starIts story
Rho Centauri is a hot blue B-type star roughly 379 light-years away, in a region of Centaurus crowded with young, massive suns. Its light, perceived as blue-white by the eye, reached Earth after a journey whose beginning roughly coincides with the century when Galileo first turned a telescope upon the sky.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.97
- Distance
- 378.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 182.913° · Dec -52.368°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59449 · HD 105937
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