How to Use Aldebaran in a Sentence
Aldebaran
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Notice a hazy patch of light to the upper right of Aldebaran?
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026
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This is Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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Aldebaran is the fourteenth brightest star in the sky and lies 67 light-years from Earth.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
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Your eye will be drawn first to Aldebaran, a bright orange star marking the Bull’s fiery eye.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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That will be Aldebaran, marking the angry right eye of Taurus.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
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Aldebaran is in a group of fainter stars (the shape is a little bit like a U on its side or a backwards C).
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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Aldebaran itself sits in the foreground, appearing as a glowing eye over the Bull’s head.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Betelgeuse is red-orange, Aldebaran is orange, and Rigel is sapphire blue.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026
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So are the Hyades open cluster and bright orangey Aldebaran, also in Taurus.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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Nearby glows the red eye of Taurus the Bull, the star of Aldebaran, only 65 light-years away.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
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Look down from Aldebaran and close to the horizon is Betelgeuse, the bright reddish shoulder of Orion.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Aldebaran is older and redder than the sun and is preparing to fuse its lightweight core into heavier elements, which are common among stars of its type.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
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To the right of Orion will be the red light of Aldebaran, the star which marks the eye of the great bull in the constellation Taurus.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026
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Look higher still, almost straight up from Aldebaran, to see a tiny cluster of stars that are almost too close together to separate with the naked eye.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
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To find Taurus, look to the northeast of the constellation Orion to find the red star Aldebaran, the star in the bull’s eye.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 2 Nov. 2026
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Aldebaran is getting ready to release a seventh generation of NAO!
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2024
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And Aldebaran is really a double star; its companion is much smaller and far dimmer, with an overall mass less than half that of the sun and only about one-third as large.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
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The other three were Aldebaran, in Taurus; Regulus in Leo; and Antares in Scorpius.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Bright orange star Aldebaran — a red giant 67 light-years from the solar system (and the most luminous star within 100 light-years) — marks the bull's eye.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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In the winter my eyes are usually drawn to the brightest stars such as Betelgeuse and Rigel in Orion and Aldebaran in nearby Taurus.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026
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Pepper, also originally developed by Aldebaran, is Nao’s newer, bigger sibling, and it, too, has been used in classrooms before.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2020
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In 2012, SoftBank took a majority stake in a French company called Aldebaran.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps the most famous star cluster in the night sky, the Pleiades, will glitter in the night sky with 'the follower' Aldebaran not far behind it, with the Hyades cluster in Taurus.
—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
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In 2008, Aldebaran Robotics came out swinging with the NAO Robot.
—Joe Salas august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
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To locate it, look southward during winter evenings; the belt points downward towards Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, and upward toward Aldebaran, a red giant in Taurus.
—Hana Al-Khodairi, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2025
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Aldebaran has a surface temperature of about 6,760 degrees F (3,738 degrees C).
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
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Compare Betelgeuse with Aldebaran Betelgeuse recently experienced another sharp drop in brightness.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026
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Head outside tonight and drink in the sight of the Pleiades open star cluster glistening close to the red star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus, before the mesmerizing naked-eye jewel slips out of view with the changing of the seasons.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
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Examples include words like alcohol, alkali, alchemy, and in astronomy, star names such as Altair, Alkaid, Alcor and Aldebaran.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 June 2026
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In 2022, German firm United Robotics Group agreed to acquire Aldebaran from SoftBank.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
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