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Second-brightest star in the night sky (after Sirius), with magnitude −0.7, lying in the southern constellation Carina. It is a yellow-white supergiant about 100 light years from the Sun, and thousands of times more luminous than the Sun.

It may have been named in honour of the chief pilot of the Greek fleet that sailed against Troy, or the name may be derived from two Coptic words signifying ‘Golden Earth’.



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The eye took in the firmament from the Southern Cross to the North Star, those two constellations which in 12,000 years, by reason of the succession of equinoxes, will resign their part of the polar stars, the one to Canopus in the southern hemisphere, the other to Wega in the northern.
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