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The brightest star in the constellation is Capella, Alpha Aurigae, which is also the sixth brightest star in the sky. There are two meteor showers associated with Auriga: the Alpha Aurigids and the Delta Aurigids.
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The star KELT-2A (HD 42176A) is the brightest star in Auriga known to host a transiting exoplanet, KELT-2Ab, and is the fifth-brightest transit hosting star overall. The brightness of the star KELT-2A allows the mass and radius of the planet KELT-2Ab to be known quite precisely.
Apr 14, 2020 · Auriga is a constellation of stars shaped like a pentagon. The brightest is Capella, which is actually a group of four stars. (Image credit: NASA JPL)
List of stars in Auriga. This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Auriga, sorted by decreasing brightness.
Apr 18, 2015 · – M37 (NGC 2099), the brightest open star cluster in Auriga, is around 24 light years across and 4,511 light-years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 5.6, and contains around 500 stars that are roughly 400 million years old.
Brightest Star in Auriga. The brightest star in the Auriga constellation is Capella at approximately 43 light-years away from Earth. With a magnitude of 0.08, Capella is the sixth brightest star in the sky and the third brightest in the north celestial hemisphere behind Vega and Arcturus .
In the Constellation of Auriga, the brightest Star is Capella (Alpha Aurigae). The second brightest Star is called Menkalinan, (Menkarlina), known as beta Aurigae. The Star Capella (alpha Aurigae) has an apparent visual magnitude of 0.08.
