- Stars with a name
- Pleione
Pleione
28 Tauri
Pleione is a very hot blue star, in the constellation Taurus. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1644.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it is best seen in the evening sky in January, February, October, November, and December.
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 5.05.
What it’s like
It gives off 114 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 11,300 degrees.
It is 381.9 light years away: 3613 trillion kilometres.