Zet

Hot blue star

Its story

Zeta Crucis burns within the small yet iconic Southern Cross, astral emblem of half a hemisphere. It is a hot blue B-type star, with a surface temperature several times that of the Sun and a far greater radiance. Its light has been crossing space for nearly 358 years —an adolescent glow, in cosmic terms, caught between the great vertices of a constellation that steered generations of navigators.

Constellation: Crux
Apparent magnitude: 4.06
Distance: 357.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 184.609° · Dec -64.003°
Catalogue: HIP 60009 · HD 106983

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