Iot

Its story

Iota Horologii is a yellow G-type star much like the Sun, lying only 56 light-years away in the small southern constellation of the Clock. Its astronomical importance is real: it hosts at least one confirmed gas-giant planet, discovered in 1999 by radial velocities, in an orbit of just over 300 days. It also belongs to the Hyades stellar stream, a kinematic current linked to the open cluster that adorns Taurus.