Ain

Its story

Ain is an orange class-K giant burning 146 light-years away in Taurus, part of the visual cluster of the Hyades though not physically bound to it. Its Arabic name means «the eye», and it represents the right eye of the bull in the old sky-drawing, beside reddish Aldebaran. It is one of the first stars around which an extrasolar giant planet was confirmed, which makes it more than a pretty point: a stellar gaze with company of its own.