• Aldebaran

  Aldebaran is a star in Taurus.

                                               
                                               
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  Type            Orange giant
  Constellation   Taurus
  Magnitude       0.8
  Spectral type   K5+III
  Distance        65 light years
  Double star     components 121.7″ apart
  You need        naked eye from a dark sky

  Known as
  Bayer           α Tau
  Yale            HR 1457

  Physical
  Radius          44 times the Sun

  More information about Aldebaran

  Aldebaran appears to sit in the Hyades cluster but is less than half as
  far away, in front of it by chance. It is an orange giant 44 times the
  Sun's width. Pioneer 10 is heading roughly in its direction and will
  pass it in about two million years. Its name is really an instruction
  for finding it: It follows the Pleiades across the sky all night.

  Etymology
  From        Arabic
  Reading     al-Dabaran  ·  الدبران
  Literally   the follower

  Bayer lettered the stars of each constellation in his Uranometria of
  1603, in order of brightness. He was working from Tycho's magnitudes by
  eye, and the order he recorded is often wrong.

  First published in 1930 by Yale astronomer Frank Schlesinger, and
  maintained since, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue lists every star down
  to magnitude 6.5. It contains 9,110 stars.

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Aldebaran