Nu

Its story

Nu Tauri is a white A-type star 117 light-years away, on the southern flank of the Bull. Despite its visual closeness, it is not a member of the Hyades cluster: it merely passes in front of that orange herd like a traveller sharing the road without sharing the origin. Its polished, even light crosses both northern winter and southern summer skies; when it set out, no one on Earth had yet measured the real distance to any star, and the modern Pacific was only just being charted.