Elnath
The tip of the bull’s northern horn, a blue-white star that old charts shared with Auriga.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.65, the 29th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 134 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white giant, spectral type B7 III
- Light it gives out
- About 320 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Taurus, where it is β Tauri
- Catalogue number
- HIP 25428
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources