hip-88298

Hot blue star

Its story

The Hipparcos catalogue places this hot blue B-type star toward Sagittarius, yet at a distance so staggering —on the order of hundreds of thousands of light-years— that it likely belongs to the farthest reaches of our Galaxy, glimpsed through the galactic bulge. Its light has been travelling so long that the whole of human civilisation fits inside its journey.

Constellation: Sagittarius
Apparent magnitude: 5.72
Distance: 326200.0 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 270.477° · Dec -22.780°
Catalogue: HIP 88298 · HD 164402

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