hip-8714

Hot blue star

Its story

2 Persei is a hot blue B-type star 482 light-years away, opening the Flamsteed list for Perseus —the constellation of the hero holding Medusa's head. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, it lives fast: stars of its class rarely last more than a few hundred million years. The light arriving tonight left around 1543, the very year Copernicus published his heliocentric model.

Constellation: Perseus
Apparent magnitude: 5.70
Distance: 482.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 28.039° · Dec 50.793°
Catalogue: HIP 8714 · HD 11291

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