Star
Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut is a white star 25.1 light-years away, seen as it was 25 years ago, shining 18 times as bright as the Sun.
Ringed by a disc of debris. The 'planet' photographed inside it in 2008 turned out to be an expanding cloud from a collision.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 25.1 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.17
- Spectral type
- A3V
- Catalogue
- HIP 113368
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.