hip-7943

Hot blue star

Its story

Triangulum hosts this hot B-class star at 275 light-years. The light arriving tonight set out around 1751, when Diderot and d'Alembert were publishing the first volume of the «Encyclopédie» and Europe was beginning to imagine knowledge as an open map. It shines a severe, almost geometric blue inside the most austere triangle of the northern sky.

Constellation: Triangulum
Apparent magnitude: 5.63
Distance: 274.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 25.515° · Dec 35.246°
Catalogue: HIP 7943 · HD 10390

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