CANOPUS
Canopus
Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. Canopus's visual magnitude is −0.72, and it has an absolute magnitude of −5.53.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Canopus
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