Achernar
A hot blue star spinning so fast that it is flattened, at the end of the river Eridanus.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.45, the 9th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 139 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white main-sequence star, spectral type B3 V
- Light it gives out
- About 1,100 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Eridanus, where it is α Eridani
- Catalogue number
- HIP 7588
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Small Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Tucana, about a hand span away.
- 47 TucanaeA globular cluster in Tucana, about a hand span away.
- Large Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Dorado, about a hand span away.
- Sculptor GalaxyA galaxy in Sculptor, about two hand spans away.
- FomalhautA white main-sequence star in Piscis Austrinus, about two hand spans away.