hip-85889

Hot blue star

Its story

Hot, blue, in Scorpius —the scorpion that hunts Orion across the sky. It lives 1,517 light-years away: its light departed when the Romans were definitively abandoning Britannia under Anglo-Saxon pressure. A B-type star, young and massive, one of those blue embers that barely reach a few million years of life.

Constellation: Scorpius
Apparent magnitude: 5.84
Distance: 1517.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 263.281° · Dec -41.173°
Catalogue: HIP 85889 · HD 158799

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