{"id":84,"date":"2026-07-20T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aj-website-pi.local\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:38:30","slug":"arcturus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/arcturus\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcturus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arcturus (also called Svati or very rarely Arktur) is an orange giant star in the constellation Bo\u00f6tes. it is the brightest star in the Constellation Bo\u00f6tes as well as the entire northern hemisphere, and the fourth brightest star In the night sky. It has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core, thus moving off the main sequence. It is around 170 times more luminous than the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astronomical data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 25.4 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 35,356,800 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar masses): 1.08 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance (in Light Years): 36.7 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: K1.5 III (Orange)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcturus (also called Svati or very rarely Arktur) is an orange giant star in the constellation Bo\u00f6tes. it is the brightest star in the Constellation Bo\u00f6tes as well as the entire northern hemisphere, and the fourth brightest star In the night sky. It has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core, thus moving off the main sequence. It is&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/arcturus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arcturus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orange-giant-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-bootes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}