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Hot blue star

Its story

In the Southern Cross burns a blue star whose light departed nearly four centuries ago, when Galileo first turned his spyglass towards Jupiter. Its surface tops ten thousand degrees, the signature of a young B-type. The constellation that hosts it guided generations of southern navigators, marking a south that no material pole points to.

Constellation: Crux
Apparent magnitude: 4.62
Distance: 384.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 191.595° · Dec -56.489°
Catalogue: HIP 62327 · HD 110956

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