Star
Mira
Mira is a red star 299 light-years away, seen as it was 299 years ago, shining 19 times as bright as the Sun.
Latin for 'wonderful': every 332 days or so it brightens to naked-eye view, then fades out of sight. It was recorded changing in 1596.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 299 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 6.47
- Spectral type
- M5e-M9e
- Catalogue
- HIP 10826
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.