Chi

Hot blue star

Its story

Chi Lupi burns blue some 195 light-years away, inside the ancient Scorpius-Centaurus stellar association, the closest nursery of young massive suns to the Earth. It is a chemically peculiar B-type star, known for its strange overabundance of heavy elements levitated in its atmosphere by the pressure of its own light. An atomic curiosity dressed in pale fire.

Constellation: Lupus
Apparent magnitude: 3.97
Distance: 195.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 237.740° · Dec -33.627°
Catalogue: HIP 77634 · HD 141556

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