Bet

Its story

Beta Caeli is the brightest star of the Chisel, a constellation so tiny and unassuming that it slips easily unnoticed between Eridanus and Columba. Lacaille drew it in the eighteenth century to represent the engraver's tools. It is a yellow-white type-F star some 93 light-years away —an intimate distance in cosmic terms: its light set out for us in the early twentieth century.