B-type star · blue-white star
137 Tau
137 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 424 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2033 · HD 39317 · HIP 27743
10,838 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
84.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
424 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
84.72×
the Sun's light output
0.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.