Kap-1

Its story

Kappa-1 Sculptoris is a yellow-white F-type star in the Sculptor, a faint constellation traced by Lacaille near the south galactic pole. About 253 light-years away, its modest brightness sits in a part of the sky where even the Milky Way’s own glow scarcely interferes with observation: through this window astronomers lean their telescopes toward the deep universe and discover, behind the thin stellar veil, some of the galaxy groups closest to the Solar System, including the very Sculptor group that gives the constellation its modern name.