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hip-66849
Hot blue starIts story
Another blue luminary of Centaurus, a fierce B-class at almost eight hundred light-years. Its light set out around 1242, deep in the Castilian Reconquista, while Ferdinand III was taking the city of Seville. Far hotter and brighter than the Sun, it occupies that bracket of the catalogue where stars live fast and burn out young in cosmic terms.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 782.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 205.505° · Dec -58.787°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66849 · HD 118978
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