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hip-63945
Hot blue starIts story
Within Centaurus, one of the oldest constellations in the southern sky, burns this fierce blue B-type sun. Its light set out some 390 years ago, when Galileo was defending his heliocentric view before the Inquisition. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, its surface exceeds 15,000 degrees —a young, violent beacon suspended in the milky current of the galaxy.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.71
- Distance
- 390.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 196.570° · Dec -48.463°
- Catalogue
- HIP 63945 · HD 113703
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