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Hot blue star

Its story

Also in Centaurus, another hot B-type blue, but closer: 335 light-years. The light we see tonight set out when Bach was composing the cantatas for the church in Leipzig and music was finding a new language. Star and fugue, both travelling: one through space, the other through time.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.79
Distance: 335.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 185.936° · Dec -38.911°
Catalogue: HIP 60463 · HD 107860

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