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Hot blue star

Its story

Circinus is the compass of the celestial cartographer, another of those modern constellations drawn to honour scientific instruments. Within its outline burns this hot blue B-class star, young and voracious, 1305 light-years away. Its light set out at the peak of medieval Islam, when Baghdad was the planet s greatest centre of learning and Persian astronomers looked at the same sky with mathematicians eyes.

Constellation: Circinus
Apparent magnitude: 5.72
Distance: 1304.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 214.161° · Dec -66.588°
Catalogue: HIP 69763 · HD 124471

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