Star
An orange giant and the brightest star in Apus, some sixty times the radius of the Sun.
| Type | Star |
|---|---|
| Distance from Earth | 498 ly |
| Diameter | 82,878,400 km |
| Mass | 8.87 × 10³⁰ kg |
| Temperature | 3,817°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 3.83 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 1597 |
Stars spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium in their core, and it's the balance between that outward pressure and gravity pulling inward that fixes how big and how bright a star gets.
At 82,878,400 km across, Paradys is 60 times the diameter of the Sun.
Its mass is 4.5 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Paradys tonight left it around 498 years ago.
Its surface sits at 4,090 K, cooler than the Sun at 5,772 K, which is what sets its colour.
It has been on record since 1597.
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