- Stars with a name
- Hadar
Hadar
β Centauri
Hadar is a very hot blue giant, in the constellation Centaurus. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1634.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never rises: it belongs to the southern sky.
Bright enough to see even from a city. Apparent magnitude 0.61.
What it’s like
It gives off 7,171 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 14,400 degrees.
It is 392.0 light years away: 3709 trillion kilometres.