Regulus, also known as Alpha Leonis, is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, with a magnitude of 1.35. It is a bluish-white star of spectral type B8 and is located 79 light-years from Earth. Regulus is a quadruple star system, with two pairs of stars orbiting each other. The system also has a dim brown-dwarf companion.
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