B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3925
HR 3925 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 997 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,814 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 420× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 997 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 85980 · HIP 48561
11,814 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
420× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
997 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
420×
the Sun's light output
-1.71
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.