Kap-1

Its story

Kappa-1 Tauri belongs to the Hyades, the open cluster closest to our Solar System, scattered around the face of the Bull. A white A-type star some 154 light-years away, it shares a single galactic drift with its siblings, all born together about 600 million years ago from the same nebula. Under a clean sky the eye picks out its optical pair Kappa-2; through a telescope, both sit within that luminous V the ancient Greeks tied to the daughters of Atlas and to the rains of winter.