hip-60379

Hot blue star

Its story

Another blue light from the Southern Cross, this one some three hundred and sixty light years away, travels to us from the era when Tycho Brahe was building his observatory of Uraniborg on a Danish island. Its hot B-type places it among the region's young stars, heirs of the same burst of stellar formation that sculpted the constellation.

Constellation: Crux
Apparent magnitude: 5.38
Distance: 361.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 185.706° · Dec -57.676°
Catalogue: HIP 60379 · HD 107696

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