Del-1

Hot blue star

Its story

δ¹ Lyrae belongs to the Stephenson 1 open cluster, a young group of stars bound by common origin that lies near the parallelogram of the Lyre. A hot blue B-type star some 992 light-years away, she shares her sky with Vega, one of the brightest stars of the northern firmament and a vertex of the celebrated Summer Triangle.

Constellation: Lyra
Apparent magnitude: 5.58
Distance: 991.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 283.431° · Dec 36.972°
Catalogue: HIP 92728 · HD 175426

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