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name: β Cru
constellation: Cru
created_by: 8mag
created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2022-01-26 20:39:14.125835
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a pale blue giant 350 light years away. With a brightness of 1.3 mag, it ranks among the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Its pulsation changes its size five times a day, and its magnitude changes by less than a tenth, but this is not enough to notice with the naked eye.