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Hot blue star

Its story

In Centaurus shines this hot blue B-type star, located more than two thousand light-years away: a very distant luminary in cosmic terms. Its light began its journey around the year 25, when Emperor Tiberius ruled Rome and Jesus of Nazareth was still a young man in Galilee. Intense B-type stars like this one burn their nuclear fuel voraciously and, in exchange for their short lives, give the sky the purest of stellar blues.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.96
Distance: 2001.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 205.917° · Dec -42.068°
Catalogue: HIP 66984 · HD 119361

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