Star
Achernar
Achernar is a blue-white star 139 light-years away, seen as it was 139 years ago, shining 1 052 times as bright as the Sun.
It spins so fast it is 35% wider at the equator than pole to pole: in 2015, the least spherical star known in the Milky Way.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 139 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 0.45
- Spectral type
- B3Vp
- Catalogue
- HIP 7588
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.