Regulus is a blue straggler star in the constellation Leo. it is the brightest star in the constellation Leo and the 21st brightest star in the night sky. The Regulus system is composed of four stars and a brown dwarf. Regulus Aa is a very oblate star, caused by its 15.9-hour rotation period. The name Regulus means ‘little king’ in Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radius (in Solar Radii): 4.21 R<\/em>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diameter (in Kilometers): 5,860,320 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mass (in Solar Masses): 4.15 M<\/var>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Distance (in Light Years): 79.1 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectral type: B8\u00a0IVn (Blue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regulus is a blue straggler star in the constellation Leo. it is the brightest star in the constellation Leo and the 21st brightest star in the night sky. The Regulus system is composed of four stars and a brown dwarf. Regulus Aa is a very oblate star, caused by its 15.9-hour rotation period. The name Regulus means ‘little king’ in… Continue reading Regulus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-sequence-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-leo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}