Atik is a hot blue-white star in the southern part of Perseus, a distant, very luminous star belonging to a young group of massive stars in the hero.
At a glance
| type | blue-white star (class B) |
|---|---|
| distance from the Sun | 1,120 light-years (344 pc) |
| its light left it | 1,120 years ago |
| luminosity | 28,700 × the Sun |
| radius | 8.74 × the Sun |
| surface temperature | 25,400 K |
| constellation | Perseus (Hero) |
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About Atik
Atik is a class B star, hot, massive and very luminous, far brighter than the Sun though it lies at a great distance. Stars this massive live short lives, and Atik is young by the standards of the Sun.
It lies in the southern part of Perseus, near the border with Taurus, in a region of the sky where young hot stars and dark clouds of gas and dust are still connected to recent star formation, close in the sky to the Perseus molecular cloud.
What you see in the piece
In the piece Atik is a blue-white point, one of the most distant stars of Perseus. Dust in this direction reddens and dims what lies behind it.
Questions
How far away is Atik?
Atik is 1,120 light-years (344 pc) from the Sun, so the light you see left it 1,120 years ago.