Nunki

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Hot blue star

Its story

Nunki guides Sagittarius's arrow towards the heart of the Milky Way, in one of the densest regions of the summer sky. Its name comes from Sumerian, recovered from Mesopotamian tablets that named it more than three millennia ago. At 228 light-years away, this blue star is an ancient beacon in the most literal sense: the light arriving now departed in the midst of the Enlightenment.

Constellation: Sagittarius
Apparent magnitude: 2.05
Distance: 227.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 283.816° · Dec -26.297°
Catalogue: HIP 92855 · HD 175191

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