Chi

Its story

Chi Cancri is one of the closest stars in the Crab: a yellow-white F-type sun just 60 light-years away, slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun. It shines quietly in a constellation famous for the Beehive cluster, M44, asking for no more part than its own. Its nearness makes it a good witness of what a main-sequence star one step hotter than our own spectral class looks like from Earth, a quiet neighbour in the local solar suburb of the Milky Way.