Nu

Hot blue star

Its story

Nu Leonis is a blue-white spectroscopic binary, a pairing so close it betrays itself only through the swing of its spectral lines. It shines with about 200 solar luminosities and is drifting away from the Sun at 14 km/s. It sits in Leo, not far from majestic Regulus, a quiet point in the mane of the king of the northern spring constellations.

Constellation: Leo
Apparent magnitude: 5.26
Distance: 499.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 149.556° · Dec 12.445°
Catalogue: HIP 48883 · HD 86360

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