hip-94630

Its story

In Lyra, that small constellation of the boreal summer associated with Orpheus, glows a red star whose light set out twelve hundred and sixty-nine years ago, when Charlemagne was still a young king of the Franks. It is a very cool giant, with a surface of barely three thousand five hundred degrees, that reddish temperature recalling iron at dusk. Despite this relative chill, its enormous size and luminosity turn it into a discreet beacon. Its garnet tone brings warmth to a constellation dominated by white and blue stars.