- 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 temperature is about 14,100 degrees Celsius.
It is 392.0 light years away: 3709 trillion kilometres.