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Polaris
F7Ib · Yellow Supergiant
The North Star — not the brightest, but the steadiest. Polaris sits nearly directly above Earth's north pole, making it the navigator's fixed point for millennia.
~433 light-years
F7Ib · Yellow Supergiant
Did You Know
- ◆Polaris is a triple star system.
- ◆It is a Cepheid variable, pulsing in brightness over ~4 days.
- ◆It lies less than 1° from the celestial north pole.