Aldebaran
The orange eye of Taurus the bull, a giant star that seems part of the Hyades cluster but is much closer to us.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.87, the 14th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 67 light years
- Kind of star
- Orange giant, spectral type K5 III
- Light it gives out
- About 160 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Taurus, where it is α Tauri
- Catalogue number
- HIP 21421
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources