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Hot blue star

Its story

Its blue light left Sagittarius around the year 705, when the Visigoths were yielding Hispania to the Umayyad advance and Irish monks were copying the first illuminated gospels. It is a B-type star, blazing, of an intense bluish-white that betrays extreme temperatures. Sagittarius points toward the heart of the Milky Way, where the sky thickens with nebulae and stellar swarms.

Constellation: Sagittarius
Apparent magnitude: 5.28
Distance: 1320.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 278.491° · Dec -33.017°
Catalogue: HIP 91014 · HD 171034

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