Sky of Your Day
  1. Stars with a name
  2. Ascella

Ascella

ζ Sagittarii

Ascella is a white star, in the constellation Sagittarius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1938.

Where to find it

Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 2.60.

What it’s like

It gives off 58 times as much light as the Sun.

Its surface is at about 9,400 degrees.

It is 88.2 light years away: 834 trillion kilometres.

It is the star of people born around 1938: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.

Other named stars in Sagittarius