hip-86019

Hot blue star

Its story

In the Serpent burns a blue star of clean fire. Its light crossed some four hundred years before reaching us: it set out around 1624, when Richelieu became First Minister of France and the Dutch founded New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Its surface seethes at temperatures that dwarf the Sun, and its lavender hue cuts the sky like a blade.

Constellation: Serpens
Apparent magnitude: 5.54
Distance: 402.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 263.693° · Dec -11.242°
Catalogue: HIP 86019 · HD 159358

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