Extreme object

WD J1330+6435

WD J1330+6435 is a star 282 light-years away.

The first star found that would look green, in its discoverers' colour models: a cool white dwarf whose sodium-rich atmosphere absorbs yellow, orange and red light. A star this cool would otherwise look orange.

Key facts

Kind

Star

Distance

282 light-years

See it from here

Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.

How the map draws it

Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; the star itself is a point at this scale — the kind of thing, not this exact one.