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Hot blue starIts story
In the curved claws of the Scorpion burns a blue flame 444 light-years away, a fragment of a recent star-forming region. Its light set out around 1582, the very year Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar and Europe leapt ten days at once. Hot B-types are stars of brief, brilliant youth: they are born in clusters and die together within a few million years.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.86
- Distance
- 443.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 242.182° · Dec -23.685°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79098 · HD 144844
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