Tonatiuh

Its story

Tonatiuh takes its name from the Mexica sun god, in the IAU campaign that assigned Mesoamerican names to stars hosting planets. It is a yellow giant in Camelopardalis, the celestial giraffe, one of the emptiest constellations in the northern sky. At 317 light-years, its golden light crossed space over the same span in which three centuries of human civilisations followed one another, without it varying its brightness in any noticeable way.