Star
A yellow supergiant and the brightest star in Camelopardalis, a large but famously dim northern constellation.
| Type | Star |
|---|---|
| Distance from Earth | 840 ly |
| Diameter | 80,775,400 km |
| Mass | 1.29 × 10³¹ kg |
| Temperature | 5,027°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 4.03 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Discovered | 1613 |
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 80,775,400 km across, Beta Camelopardalis is 58 times the diameter of the Sun.
Its mass is 6.5 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Beta Camelopardalis tonight left it around 840 years ago.
Its surface sits at 5,300 K, cooler than the Sun at 5,772 K, which is what sets its colour.
It has been on record since 1613.
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