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hip-78168
Hot blue starIts story
Hot and bluish-white, this B-star shines in the sting of Scorpius, the scorpion forever chasing Orion across the sky. Its light has crossed space for 460 years: it set out around 1565, while Philip II was having the Escorial built and Spain ruled an empire where —it was said— the sun never set.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.84
- Distance
- 460.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 239.419° · Dec -20.983°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78168 · HD 142883
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