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The bright star nearly overhead at 9 p.m. is Arcturus, in Bootes the Bear Herder. Arcturus is a giant yellow star 20 times the diameter and 110 times the luminosity of our sun. It is the closest giant star to Earth, about 37 light-years away.
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Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory
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