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hip-77858
Hot blue starIts story
In the stinger of the Scorpion burns a class B sapphire whose light crossed 420.4 years to reach us. It departed around 1605, the year Cervantes published the first part of Don Quixote and opened a new era for the European novel. A blue surface, intense, far hotter than the solar one —a high note in the basso continuo of the firmament.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.38
- Distance
- 420.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 238.475° · Dec -24.533°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77858 · HD 142165
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