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hip-59607
Hot blue starIts story
Among the stars of Centaurus burns this blue B-type point at 1,425 light-years. Its light set off around the year 600, when the Byzantine Empire still defended Constantinople and, on the other side of the world, Teotihuacan was beginning its slow decline. A hot ember seen across fifteen centuries of distance.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.77
- Distance
- 1424.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 183.354° · Dec -38.929°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59607 · HD 106231
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