hip-59819

Its story

6 Comae Berenices shines within Berenice's Hair, the constellation woven from the lock the Egyptian queen offered to the gods. It is a white A-type star 199 light-years away, young in stellar terms and of a sharp blue-white hue. The region is home to the famous Coma Star Cluster and to swarms of distant galaxies, so this star sits in one of the densest archives of astronomical history in the northern sky.