Rho

Its story

Rho Aurigae is a hot blue-white star sparkling in the outskirts of the Charioteer, more than five hundred light-years away. Its surface exceeds twelve thousand degrees, the mark of a still vigorous youth, and it is moving away from the Sun at speeds that will leave traces in the astrometric catalogues of the next millennium. The light we now see set out when the Catholic Monarchs were signing the Granada Capitulations.