B-type star · blue-white star
40 Tau
Also catalogued as HR 1253 · HD 25558 · HIP 18957
11,247 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
250× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
641 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
250×
the Sun's light output
-1.15
absolute magnitude
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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.