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Another blue ember beats in the southern Centaurus, some 367 light-years away. Its light set off around 1659, when Christiaan Huygens was discovering Titan and first drawing Saturn's rings in detail. Far hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its surface reaches temperatures only glimpsed on Earth inside laboratory plasmas.

Constellation: Centaurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.88
Distance: 366.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 218.881° · Dec -41.517°
Catalogue: HIP 71353 · HD 127971

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