Nu Puppis
Blue-hued Be shell giant and former south pole star.
Nu Puppis (ν Puppis), also named Pipit, is a solitary, blue-hued giant star in the southern constellation Puppis. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.17, it is the fifth-brightest star in the constellation. Located about 370 light years from the Sun, it is a Be shell star with a circumstellar disk of heated gas seen edge-on. It is a candidate variable star and spins rapidly, giving it an oblate shape. Around 12330 BCE it was the nearest bright star to the southern celestial pole.
Quick Facts
- Apparent visual magnitude
- 3.17
- Spectral type
- B8 III
- Distance from sun
- about 370 light years
- Projected rotational velocity
- 225 km/s
- Equatorial effective temperature
- 10,000 K
- Polar effective temperature
- 13,000 K
- Equatorial surface gravity
- 2.9 cgs
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