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hip-73624
Hot blue starIts story
In Lupus, the southern wolf, a blue B-type star burns at about 388 light-years. Its light set out around 1638, when Galileo was finishing his dialogues on two new sciences and astronomy was learning to study the sky with the rigor of the telescope. Far hotter and brighter than the Sun, it carries the bluish-white tone of young stars that live in haste and die in full youth.
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 387.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 225.747° · Dec -32.643°
- Catalogue
- HIP 73624 · HD 132955
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