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hip-71453
Hot blue starIts story
At 481 light-years, in southern Centaurus, burns a class B blue star whose light set out when Galileo Galilei was observing the phases of Venus through his spyglass — decisive proof against the geocentric model. Its scorching atmosphere, thousands of degrees above the Sun's, pours a blue-white luminosity into the cosmos. It shines in a region of sky ruled by the great southern stars.
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 481.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 219.184° · Dec -40.212°
- Catalogue
- HIP 71453 · HD 128207
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