B-type star · blue-white star
72 Tau
72 Tau is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 378 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 378 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1399 · HD 28149 · HIP 20789
11,539 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
71.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
378 years
at light speed from Earth
2.00×
as hot as the Sun
71.78×
the Sun's light output
0.21
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.