hip-90804

Hot blue star

Its story

1,077 light-years away burns this hot-blue in Scutum, the baroque shield Hevelius drew in honour of a Polish king. Her blue-white light departed deep in the 10th century: the first Christian millennium still reigned and the Vikings ploughed the North Atlantic. B stars like this burn so quickly that by the time a human decodes their light, the star has already changed.

Constellation: Scutum
Apparent magnitude: 5.77
Distance: 1076.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 277.857° · Dec -10.796°
Catalogue: HIP 90804 · HD 170740

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