Star
Capella
Capella is a yellow star 42.8 light-years away, seen as it was 43 years ago, shining 139 times as bright as the Sun.
The sixth-brightest star in the sky looks like one star and is four, in two pairs. The bright pair are yellow giants of about 2.5 Suns each.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 42.8 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 0.08
- Spectral type
- G3III+G0III
- Catalogue
- HIP 24608
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.