B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3139
HR 3139 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 465 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,624 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 465 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 65908 · HIP 38863
11,624 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
62.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
465 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
62.00×
the Sun's light output
0.37
absolute magnitude
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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.