Pi-2

Its story

π² Gruis shines yellow-white at 130 light-years, in the southern Crane whose silhouette Dutch navigators traced over the sky of the East Indies. An F-class star, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it lies close to its companion π¹ Gruis on the sky without being gravitationally bound to it — a closeness that is only apparent, born of our perspective from the northern side of the Galaxy.