B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3137
HR 3137 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 982 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,351 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 320× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 982 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 65904 · HIP 39014
12,351 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
320× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
982 years
at light speed from Earth
2.14×
as hot as the Sun
320×
the Sun's light output
-1.41
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.