hip-77286

Hot blue star

Its story

In Lupus, the celestial wolf howling near the Centaur, shines a hot, luminous blue star. Its light set out around 1641, just as Descartes was publishing his Metaphysical Meditations and reordering European thought. Far more massive than the Sun, its blazing surface radiates an intense bluish white, the fruit of a fire much more violent than that of our own star.

Constellation: Lupus
Apparent magnitude: 5.61
Distance: 384.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 236.684° · Dec -34.682°
Catalogue: HIP 77286 · HD 140784

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