hip-70243

Hot blue star

Its story

At 1,370 light years in Centaurus, this blue B-type star shines at magnitude 5.57. Its light set out around the year 655, when the Visigoths held the Eighth Council in Toledo to reform the Hispanic court. Blue stars like this one live extraordinarily short lives in cosmic terms —only tens of millions of years— and their intense brightness compensates for distance with the cold purity of their radiation.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.57
Distance: 1370.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 215.582° · Dec -34.787°
Catalogue: HIP 70243 · HD 125745

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