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hip-67663
Hot blue starIts story
Deep within Centaurus burns a hot blue class B star nearly sixteen hundred light years away. When its light first peeled away, the Western Roman Empire was collapsing and the long night of the early Middle Ages was beginning. It now crosses space like a delayed messenger from that crumbling world.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.77
- Distance
- 1591.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 207.947° · Dec -46.899°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67663 · HD 120640
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