Regulus and Mars tonight

QUICK, look up to the western sky after sunset. I can still see it at 8 pm. Mars and Regulus near each other. A bright blue and Mars a red color. Regulus is in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the sky. it is a 4 star system of a blue-white and a white dwarf pair 79 light years away. 79 x 5.88 trillion miles = 460 trillion miles away. It is about 4X our suns mass. Mars is the 4th planet from the sun. it is half the diameter of earth at 4,212 miles. Mars is 140,000,000 miles from earth.

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