Aldebaran
The red eye of Taurus.
Aldebaran is a red giant in Taurus, typically the fourteenth-brightest star in the night sky, about 67 light-years away. It lies in front of the Hyades cluster but is unrelated to it.
It has about the Sun's mass but 45 times its radius and over 400 times its luminosity, and is over six billion years old.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Red giant
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Distance
- ~67 light-years
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