Hadar
Related Category: Astronomy: Stars
or
Beta Centauri(bā´tə sĕntôr´ē), bright star in the constellation
Centaurus; 1992 position R.A. 14
h01.7
m, dec. −60°13&minut;. A bluish-white giant of
spectral class B1 II, it has an apparent
magnitude of 0.63, making it one of the 10 brightest stars in the sky. Its distance from the earth is more than 400 light-years. Hadar is a visual
binary star.