hip-98583

Its story

64 Draconis is a very cool red giant embedded in the immense body of Draco, that boreal circumpolar constellation coiled around the north celestial pole. Its surface does not reach 4,000 kelvin and, at 588 light-years away, it gives off the deep red of stars approaching their final stretch. The light crossing the atmosphere tonight left its photosphere while European navigators were not yet dreaming of rounding the Cape of Good Hope.