- Stars with a name
- Terebellum
Terebellum
ω Sagittarii
Terebellum is a yellow star like the Sun, in the constellation Sagittarius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1941.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 4.70.
What it’s like
It gives off 7.8 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 5,400 degrees.
It is 84.8 light years away: 802 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1941: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.