Elnath

Its story

Elnath, the Beta of Taurus, marks one of the bull's celestial horns and sits on the very edge of neighbouring Auriga. Its name comes from the Arabic «al-naṭḥ», «the goring» — the thrust of the mythic beast. A hot, young, blue-white B-class star roughly 134 light-years away, its light arriving tonight first crossed the dark while Napoleon still walked the Earth and the telegraph was barely a dream.