2.  Mu Cephei name was known as “Garnet Star” because of it’s deep red color.

3.  This star is a famous variable star the brightness is four times greater than it’s maximum.

4.  1,550 light years away estimates place it at about 573 parsecs which equates to about 1,900 light years from us.

5.  2536 times the solar radius. Would fill the orbit of Saturn. http://www.windows2universe.org/the_u niverse/MuCephi.html

6.  38,000 times brighter than the sun.

7.  Mu Cephei is the famous "Garnet Star", so named by Sir William Herschel for its vivid red, even noticeable in binoculars (if somewhat http://www.dibonsmith.com/cep_m.htm more so in telescopes).

9.  By Carliyah Stovall