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hip-85169
Hot blue starIts story
On the altar of the firmament, Ara, burns a hot blue star some 889 light-years away. Its light set out around 1137, when Roger II was crowned king of Sicily and the Mediterranean was a crucible of cultures. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, this youthful ember spills its radiation over interstellar clouds, slowly tinting them an ultraviolet blue.
- Constellation
- Ara
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 888.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 261.078° · Dec -60.674°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85169 · HD 156942
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