- Stars with a name
- Tureis
Tureis
ρ Puppis
Tureis is a yellow-white star, in the constellation Puppis. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1962.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 2.83.
What it’s like
It gives off 24 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 6,600 degrees.
It is 63.5 light years away: 601 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1962: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.