A-type star · white star
Aiolos
Aiolos is a white star in the constellation Carina 295 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,938 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 7.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 295 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 95086 · HIP 53524
7,938 K
temperature
7.36
apparent magnitude
8.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
295 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
8.10×
the Sun's light output
2.58
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.