B-type star · blue-white star
Wurren
Wurren is a blue-white star in the constellation Phoenix 299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,920 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 194× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 299 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta Phe · HR 338 · HD 6882 · HIP 5348
11,920 K
temperature
3.94
apparent magnitude
194× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V + B0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
194×
the Sun's light output
-0.87
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.