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hip-79404
Hot blue starIts story
13 Scorpii burns some 479 light-years away, a blue-white beacon in the Scorpion's head. It belongs to the Upper Scorpius association, a vast nursery of young stars —only a few million years old— where massive suns ignite one after another. Carrying several solar masses, it lives a brilliant, short life, doomed to fade out while a star like our Sun is barely warming up.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.58
- Distance
- 479.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 243.076° · Dec -27.926°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79404 · HD 145482
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