hip-91975

Its story

4 Aquilae is a blue B-type star burning some 465 light-years away inside Aquila, the constellation the Sun crosses in the heart of northern summer and which the Milky Way traverses at one of its dustiest stretches. Its blue-white glow stands against the dark veils of galactic dust that Aquila wears like a mantle. The light reaching us today escaped during the age of the great Iberian navigators of the sixteenth century.