hip-85389

Hot blue star

Its story

In Ara, the smoking altar of the ancients, shines a blue B-type star 636 light-years away. Its white-blue light, far hotter than the Sun's, set out when Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth under Castilian colors. It reaches us now as a quiet glow, a reminder that in the southern sky burns an altar untouched by human clocks.

Constellation: Ara
Apparent magnitude: 5.28
Distance: 635.9 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 261.717° · Dec -45.843°
Catalogue: HIP 85389 · HD 157661

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