Kap

Its story

Kappa Aurigae shines 177 light-years away in Auriga, not far from the brilliant trail of Capella. It is a yellow G-type giant —similar in colour to our Sun, but already swollen and far more luminous— a glimpse of what our own star may become billions of years from now. Its golden light filters through the edge of a celestial pentagon that the Greeks tied to Erichthonius, the charioteer.