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hip-59517
Hot blue starIts story
Very far away in the Southern Cross, at around 326,200 light years, burns a blue class B star far hotter than the Sun. Its light departed when the first modern humans had not yet begun their great dispersion across the planet. It is an indigo-toned beacon whose intensity crosses the galactic ocean, reminding us that the true distances of the sky escape everyday intuition.
- Constellation
- Crux
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 183.092° · Dec -62.951°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59517 · HD 106068
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