Loading…
Loading content
Loading…
Loading content19 Tauri
Taygeta is a main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus (Tauri), lying about 409.2 light-years from Earth.
Class B. Hot, blue-white stars. Massive and luminous, they often light up the regions where they form. Such stars have surface temperatures around 10,000–30,000 K and appear blue-white to the eye.
| Spectral type | B6V |
| Luminosity class | V |
| Apparent magnitude | 4.3 |
| Absolute magnitude | -1.19 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 261 |
| Colour index (B−V) | -0.11 |
| Distance | 409.2 ly (125.47 pc) |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A main-sequence star fuses hydrogen into helium in its core. It will remain on the main sequence for most of its life before evolving into a giant.
Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.
Aggregated, openly-licensed star catalogue combining Hipparcos, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
High-precision parallax, magnitude, and position for ~118,000 stars.