hip-23871

Its story

106 Tauri shines with the white light of an A-type star at the edges of Taurus, far from the clamour of the Pleiades and Aldebaran. Its light comes from some 189 light-years away: it left around 1837, when Victoria was ascending the British throne. It is one of those stars Flamsteed catalogued with the patience of a celestial notary, small white embers along the quiet outline of the cosmic animal.