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Hot blue star

Its story

16 Draconis is a hot blue B-type star 427 light-years away, coiled into the body of the Dragon —a vast constellation winding between the two Bears. Its bluish surface burns at temperatures far above the Sun's, the mark of a young star with a short life by stellar standards. The light arriving now left around 1599, before Galileo had pointed a telescope at the sky.

Constellation: Draco
Apparent magnitude: 5.53
Distance: 427.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 249.048° · Dec 52.900°
Catalogue: HIP 81290 · HD 150100

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