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Hot blue starIts story
In Triangulum Australe, a modest figure of the southern sky, shines a blue-white B-type star, young and far hotter than the Sun. Its light set out about 889 years ago, when the first Gothic cathedrals were rising in Île-de-France and Andalusian astronomers were refining planetary tables in Toledo. It arrives now with the freshness of bluish suns, untouched after almost nine centuries of travel.
- Constellation
- Triangulum Australe
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 888.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 239.742° · Dec -65.038°
- Catalogue
- HIP 78279 · HD 142514
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