Ome-1

Its story

Omega-1 Tauri occupies a region of the Bull set apart from the famed Hyades cluster and the luminous patch of the Pleiades. It is an orange K-type giant some 284 light-years away —an aged, swollen star that has crossed the thresholds of its evolution. Its warm light blends with a background of lesser stars, in a constellation whose zodiacal body holds some of the winter sky's most celebrated stellar landmarks.