A-type star · white star

55 Ari

55 Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 1,056 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,885 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 461× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,056 years ago.

1,056 lybrightness mag 5.74B8III

Also catalogued as HR 944 · HD 19548 · HIP 14677

8,885 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
461× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,056 years
at light speed from Earth
1.54×
as hot as the Sun
461×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
absolute magnitude
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55 AriA-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.