hip-65129

Hot blue star

Its story

On the plains of the Centaur shines this hot blue B-type star, set at a colossal distance —hundreds of thousands of light-years— so that its light departed long before Homo sapiens inhabited this shore of the cosmos. It may belong to a distant system beyond the main disc of the Milky Way. Its bluish surface burns far hotter than the Sun's; what little we see is only a whisper of its true splendour.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 6.00
Distance: 326200.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 200.201° · Dec -55.801°
Catalogue: HIP 65129 · HD 115842

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