Acrux
The brightest star of the Southern Cross, at its foot, a pair of hot blue stars.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.77, the 13th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 322 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white subgiant, spectral type B0.5 IV
- Light it gives out
- About 4,200 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Crux, where it is α Crux
- Catalogue number
- HIP 60718
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources