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CPD -572874

The big and old blue star is starting to expand and to blow its hull out into space. This it doesn't do spherical. The star before already was surrounded by a dust disk. But planets there are admittedly rather implausible, because the time it takes to form planets should be longer than the life-span of a very big star.

Constellation: Vela
Distance: circa 8200 light-years
Spectral class: Be
Visual magnitude: 10.18
Luminosity: > 10 000 * Sun
Diameter: circa 60 * Sun

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