Arcturus
At a glance
- Type
- Star
- Distance
- Nearby (under 1,000 light years)
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- Before telescopes (before 1600)
- Colour
- Orange
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its Greek name means guardian of the bear, because it seems to follow the Great Bear across the sky.
- In 1933 light from Arcturus, caught by a telescope, switched on the lights of the World's Fair in Chicago.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q12985 · All space objects · All entries