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Hot blue star

Its story

19 Ursae Minoris is a hot blue-white B-type star 618 light-years away in the Little Bear. It belongs to the most energetic family of suns in the nearby catalogue: surfaces that climb to tens of thousands of degrees. Its light, travelling for centuries, reaches the celestial north with the chromatic coolness of blue and the steadiness of a very luminous star seen from far away.

Constellation: Ursa Minor
Apparent magnitude: 5.48
Distance: 617.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 242.706° · Dec 75.878°
Catalogue: HIP 79280 · HD 146926

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