hip-70915

Hot blue star

Its story

In Lupus, the wolf of the southern sky, shines a blue B-type star, far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, one of those bonfires that live briefly and burn fiercely. Its light needs about 477 years to cross the void: what we receive today departed around 1549, when Mercator was publishing in Leuven his first cylindrical-projection maps and the known world was beginning to fall into a grid.

Constellation: Lupus
Apparent magnitude: 5.51
Distance: 476.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 217.536° · Dec -45.321°
Catalogue: HIP 70915 · HD 126981

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