● Capella

  Capella is a star in Auriga.

                                               
                                               
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  Type            Yellow giant
  Constellation   Auriga
  Magnitude       0.1
  Spectral type   G5IIIe+G0III
  Distance        42 light years
  You need        naked eye from a dark sky

  Known as
  Bayer           α Aur
  Yale            HR 1708

  More information about Capella

  Capella looks like one star but is in fact a four-star system: two
  yellow giants orbiting each other in 104 days, and a distant pair of red
  dwarfs. It is far enough north to be circumpolar from most of Europe and
  North America, so it never sets. Its name comes from the goat Amalthea,
  who suckled the infant Zeus. One of the few bright stars whose name is
  an animal.

  History
  Discovered   resolved as a double by William Campbell, 1899

  Etymology
  From         Latin
  Reading      capella
  Literally    little she-goat

  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/Capella