Ome-2

Its story

Omega-2 Tauri belongs to the Hyades, the closest open cluster to the Sun at about 94 light-years: the V-shaped head of the celestial Bull. It is a double star sharing with its sisters an age of 600 to 800 million years and a common origin, all born from a single cloud. Modest to the naked eye, it belongs to the first cluster whose distance was pinned down by modern parallax.