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Hot blue star

Its story

In Centaurus, neighbour of the southern heart of the sky, shines a blue class B star some 555 light-years away. Its light set out around 1471, when Botticelli was painting in Florence and the printing press was beginning to multiply books across Europe. Hot, young and cool-toned to the eye, it recalls that many deep-sky beacons live brief and brilliant lives compared with the long existences of yellow stars like our Sun.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.98
Distance: 554.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 196.851° · Dec -59.861°
Catalogue: HIP 64033 · HD 113823

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