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Hot blue starIts story
57 Aquilae burns 482 light-years away, on the wing of the Eagle that crosses the summer Milky Way. It is a hot, young blue-white B-type, its cool colour contrasting with the yellower stars that populate that stretch of sky. Nearby shines Altair, the closest vertex of the Summer Triangle, just 17 light-years away —a rare proximity among the brightest stars.
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.70
- Distance
- 482.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 298.657° · Dec -8.227°
- Catalogue
- HIP 97966 · HD 188293
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