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hip-64515
Hot blue starIts story
In the gallop of the Centaur burns a blue beacon 366 light-years away, part of the great young associations of the southern hemisphere. Its light set out around 1660, when Robert Hooke had just written the first modern law on the elasticity of springs. A hot B-type burns its hydrogen with such hunger that its life barely lasts a cosmic blink.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 366.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 198.347° · Dec -50.700°
- Catalogue
- HIP 64515 · HD 114772
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