Star
Regulus
Regulus is a blue-white star 79.3 light-years away, seen as it was 79 years ago, shining 147 times as bright as the Sun.
The closest bright star to the ecliptic, so the Moon often passes in front of it. It spins every 15.9 hours, near the speed that would tear it apart.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 79.3 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.36
- Spectral type
- B7V
- Catalogue
- HIP 49669
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.