--- name: Gacrux (γ Cru) constellation: Cru created_by: 8mag created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00 updated_by: skybber updated_date: 2022-01-26 20:40:25.962120 --- red giant (1.6mag), which contrasts nicely with the three other hot blue-white stars of the cross. In fact, it is an optical binary, a companion of 6.5mag brightness found in the trinary at a distance of 2'. The red giant is 88 light years away, the companion is three times farther away.