B-type star · blue-white star
Maia
Maia is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,986 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 340× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 383 years ago.
Also catalogued as 20 Tau · HR 1149 · HD 23408 · HIP 17573
10,986 K
temperature
3.87
apparent magnitude
340× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
340×
the Sun's light output
-1.48
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.