Regulus

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The star Regulus in the constellation Leo is quite the speedy star indeed. It rotates once in just 15.9 hours, compared to the stately Sun which takes about a month to do this. This is so fast that it looks like a squashed beach ball, some 32% wider at the equator than at the poles. Know anyone like that?

So, when you look through your backyard telescope, you can expect to see... a point. That's what anyone can expect to see of an object 77.5 Light Years away, even if it is a fat star more massive than the Sun.

But Regulus also is moving quite fast through space. It moves nearly in the direction of the axis of spin, which happens to be to our west.