Gam

Its story

Gamma Microscopii lights the minuscule constellation of the Microscope, charted by Lacaille in the eighteenth century during his famous Cape of Good Hope campaign. A yellow type G giant some 229 light-years away, it shares the Sun's colour but hardly its size, having long left the main sequence. Some studies have proposed it as a former member of the Ursa Major moving group, a stream of sibling stars that time has scattered across the sky.