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Hot blue starIts story
Another blue ember beats in Sagittarius, some 477 light-years away. Its ray left the star around 1549, when Francis Xavier was landing in Japan and the world's seas were being laced together by new trade routes. Hot and young, its surface easily passes ten thousand degrees —well over twice the Sun's— bathing the surrounding space in an almost violet glow.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.51
- Distance
- 476.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 284.849° · Dec -12.841°
- Catalogue
- HIP 93225 · HD 176162
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