Capella 4

As highly evolved, yellow-orange giant stars, Capella Aa and Ab are still much smaller than the red supergiant Betelgeuse, at left. (A Digitized Sky Survey image of these binary giants may be available at the Nearby Stars Database.) Capella System is a Union system and has been devastated by Xunx and the subsequent United Earth robo bombs.(Operation RAID ).

For Union system Info see : Capella, system

Stars

Alpha Aurigae Aa (or A) Alpha Aurigae Ab (or B or P) Alpha Aurigae C (or H) Alpha Aurigae D (or L)

System Summary

The Capella, or Alpha Aurigae, system is located about 42.2 light-years from Sol. It is the brightest star (5:16:41.4+45:59:52.8, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Auriga, Latin for the Charioteer. The name "Capella" derives from the Latin for "Little Nanny" (or She-Goat) and refers to the goat carried on the left shoulder of the Charioteer. A bright star of the northern hemisphere in Winter, Capella is the closest first-magnitude star to the North Pole (and dimmer Polaris). Viewed as the sixth brightest star in the Earth's night sky, Capella is actually composed of four components, of which giant stars Aa and Ab constitute the second brightest spectroscopic binary -- first detected by William Wallace Campbell in six spectrum plates taken between 1896 and 1897. The system is a member of the Hyades group.