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hip-60710
Hot blue starIts story
In the southern stretch of Centaurus burns a hot blue B-type sun, nearly four hundred and fifty light-years away. Stars this hot consume their fuel in a hurry —short lives, fierce brightness. The light now crossing the sky left its surface when Galileo first pointed his refracting telescope at the moons of Jupiter.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.82
- Distance
- 448.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 186.632° · Dec -51.451°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60710 · HD 108257
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