GSC 02620-00648

The star GSC 02620-00648 located in the constellation Hercules and is about 1,400 light-years away from Earth. He's bigger and hotter than our sun, he also is also much more luminous than this and emits three to four times as much energy per second.

GSC 02620-00648, however, although almost the same age as our sun, is much more advanced in its evolutionary development. The reason is that it is massive therefore evolved much faster than our sun and. He was already on the subgiant that has consumed its hydrogen in the core and will blow up in about a billion years into a red giant, much like Arcturus or Aldebaran.

GSC 02620-00648 is known for the very large exoplanets TrES -4, orbiting the star in a very short distance. In the phase in which GSC 02620-00648 evolves into a red giant, it will engulf this planet with very high probability.

• Individual star fifth size and darker
• Hercules ( constellation )
• Star with exoplanet