hip-80390

Hot blue star

Its story

In Scorpius shines a blue-white B-type star, young and hot, whose light set out around 1605, the year Cervantes published the first part of Don Quixote. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, it radiates with the clean fury of stars that have only just begun their existence. Its sharp, cold glow crosses four centuries to join the gleam at the scorpion's sting.

Constellation: Scorpius
Apparent magnitude: 5.42
Distance: 420.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 246.132° · Dec -37.566°
Catalogue: HIP 80390 · HD 147628

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