Adhara
The second brightest star of the Great Dog, a blue giant that was the brightest star in the sky a few million years ago.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.5, the 24th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 405 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white bright giant, spectral type B2 II
- Light it gives out
- About 3,400 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Canis Major, where it is ε Canis Majoris
- Catalogue number
- HIP 33579
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources