 It was discovered in 2005 with the Kueyen telescope, which is part of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array.HE 0437-5439 is a young star, with an age of around 30 million years.The mass of the star is almost nine times greater than the mass of the Sun and the star is located 200,000 light years away in the direction of the Dorado constellation, 16 degrees northwest of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and farther away than the LMC.