Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Beta Aurigae traditionally named Menkalinan, is a white subgiant ternary star system approximately 85 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. Beta Aurigae is actually a ternary star system, although the light that the star system releases forges the appearance of a single star in the night sky. The two brightest components, Beta Aurigae A and B, are both white subgiants falling under the A-type stellar classification; Beta Aurigae B is about the same mass and radius as A. A-type entities are hot stars that release a blue-white light; these two stars burn brighter and with more heat than the Sun, which is a G2-type subgiant star.