Mimosa
Beta Crucis, the second brightest star of the Southern Cross, a hot blue giant.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.25, the 20th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 279 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white giant, spectral type B0.5 III
- Light it gives out
- About 2,000 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Crux, where it is β Crux
- Catalogue number
- HIP 62434
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
- Jewel BoxAn open cluster in Crux, right beside it, a finger’s width away.
- GacruxA red giant in Crux, about three fingers away.
- AcruxA blue-white subgiant in Crux, about three fingers away.
- HadarA blue-white giant in Centaurus, about a fist away.
- Omega CentauriA globular cluster in Centaurus, about a fist away.