Zet

Hot blue star

Its story

ζ Centauri burns at 382 light-years, a blue-white B-type sun set among the legs of the Centaur. Its glow is not the soft fire of an aging star but the fierce shine of a young, hot body that devours hydrogen at a rate the Sun will never know. The light reaching our sky tonight left that surface when Gothic cathedrals were first rising across Europe.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 2.55
Distance: 382.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 208.885° · Dec -47.288°
Catalogue: HIP 68002 · HD 121263

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