Star
Albireo
Albireo is an orange star 434 light-years away, seen as it was 434 years ago, shining 931 times as bright as the Sun.
An amber star and a blue-green one side by side in a small telescope. Whether they orbit each other or only line up is still not known.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 434 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 3.05
- Spectral type
- K3II+
- Catalogue
- HIP 95947
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.