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Adhara , bright star in the constellation Canis Major ; Bayer designation Canis Majoris; 1992 position R.A. 6 ^h 58.3 ^m , Dec. -31°54′. A bluish-white giant (spectral class B2 II) with apparent magnitude 1.5, it is one of the 25 brightest stars in the sky. Adhara is a visual binary star with combined luminosity about 8,000 times that of the sun; its distance is about 700 light-years. The name is from the Arabic meaning "virgin."

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Adhara The star Epsilon Canis Majoris, magnitude 1.5. It is a B2 supergiant, 431 l.y. away, with a companion of magnitude 7.4.

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