Mu

Its story

Mu Phoenicis is a yellow giant in the constellation of the Phoenix, a figure born late, during the Dutch voyages of the sixteenth century, and named by Bayer after the bird that rises from its own ashes. The star has burned through its core hydrogen and now glows with a warm radiance from 246 light years away. It shines in a region of the southern sky that, for thousands of years, remained unnamed for the peoples of the Mediterranean.