By: Carli Cosenza 1 st Hour

-Regulus is also known as Alpha Leonis. -Not counting the Sun, it is the 21 st brightest star in the sky, as seen from it’s apparent brightness from Earth. -Regulus is a multiple star system- it is orbited by a distant binary pair of stars.

REGULUS:THE SUN:  The Diameter may be over 3.14 times that of the Sun.  This would make the diameter around 2,715,905 miles!  1,391,980 kilometers, or 864,938 miles, in diameter. As you can see, Regulus is a lot bigger!

REGULUSTHE SUN  The temperature at its poles is 15,00 degrees Celsius, whereas at the equator, the temperature is 10,000 degrees Celsius.  This temperature is a lot hotter than the Sun, which is one of the reasons why it is the 21 st brightest star in the sky.  10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or 6,000 degrees Celsius.

REGULUS SUN:  Regulus is a blue-white- colored star.  The Sun is yellowish- orange colored. Regulus is very different than the Sun. The Sun doesn’t look like Regulus at all.

 Regulus is 77 light years away from the Sun, making it the closest star to the Sun.  Although it sounds really far away, this is a remarkably close distance in space!

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 Regulus is located in the constellation Leo. As its story goes, Heracles, a Greek hero, wanted to fight off Nemean Lion, a huge and dangerous beast. The beast, however, fought and killed Heracles, gaining power.  This constellation is shaped like Nemean Lion.  Regulus is the heart of the Lion in this constellation. In ancient cultures, Regulus, the brightest star in Leo, has been associated with the concept of royalty and kingly power.  It has been said that Regulus focuses the energy of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, towards the Earth. Regulus acts as a “regulator” for the energies of Sirius.

 Regulus was born because of a nebula, or a giant cloud of gas and dust.  It will live its life as a blue supergiant, or even a blue- white supergiant, because of its hot temperature and giant mass.  Near the end, it will cool down to a Red Supergiant.  Regulus will then die in either a giant explosion, called a supernova, or a black hole, which means that it becomes so dense that that nothing can escape its gravitational pull, and it turns completely black.  Currently, Regulus is 150 million years old, which is pretty old for such a big mass, probably near the middle-end part of its life, and Regulus is still a blue- white supergiant.

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