AE Aurigae

~ 30 000 L ☉

AE Aurigae (in short AE Aur ) is an approximately 1500 light years from Earth remote main-sequence star of spectral type O9 in the constellation Auriga. As Orion Variable varies its apparent brightness temporally irregularly between 5.78 mag and 6.08 mag. His intense light illuminates the emission and reflection nebula IC 405

How My Columba and 53 Arietis heard AE Aurigae to the so-called runaway stars who stray with high space velocities from a stellar association. In the case of the three stars mentioned have their speeds and directions of motion suggests that they about 3 million years were located near the present-day trapezium in the Orion constellation, were driven out of the Orion association and thereby flew off in different directions. According to a theory, the three stars formed originally with a more massive fourth star a multiple system in the Orion until this fourth component exploded due to their large mass about 3 million years ago as a supernova, and this energy released the other three stars out hurled from the Orion association. With high speed, then moved about AE Aurigae from Earth seen from its source in the Orion to its present position in the constellation Auriga. Another theory is that the three runaway stars could have been thrown due to large random approach to other massive stars through gravitational interaction of the Orion association.

Due to its large mass (about 17 times the Sun) AE Aurigae will explode as supernovae and unusually quickly pull up later than Pulsar above the galactic plane its orbit.