Star
A yellow-white subgiant with a white dwarf companion, and the brightest star in Fornax.
| Type | Star |
|---|---|
| Distance from Earth | 46 ly |
| Diameter | 2,646,090 km |
| Mass | 2.64 × 10³⁰ kg |
| Temperature | 5,967°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 3.85 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 1756 |
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 2,646,090 km across, Dalim is 1.9 times the diameter of the Sun.
Its mass is 1.3 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Dalim tonight left it around 46 years ago.
Its surface sits at 6,240 K, hotter than the Sun at 5,772 K, which is what sets its colour.
It has been on record since 1756.
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