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hip-66925
Hot blue starIts story
A very hot blue star in Centaurus, unnamed and truly distant. Its light has been travelling for 2887 years —it set off around 861 BCE, when the Assyrians under Ashurnasirpal II were inaugurating their capital Nimrud— and is still crossing the galaxy. Of B-type and many times hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is one of those blue titans that shine across millennia and defy any human scale of time.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.00
- Distance
- 2886.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 205.734° · Dec -56.768°
- Catalogue
- HIP 66925 · HD 119159
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