Hassaleh

Its story

Hassaleh, in Auriga, is a luminous orange giant whose traditional name survives without a clear etymology, likely a late transliteration. It shines with several thousand times the power of the Sun, which explains its intensity despite a distance of 494 light-years. The light reaching us today set out in the first half of the sixteenth century, when Copernicus was publishing that the Earth orbits the Sun.