Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alpha Muscae is a Class B2, third-magnitude star in the constellation Musca. This hot class B subgiant shines from a distance of 306 light years at a luminosity of 4,520 times that of the Sun from a blue-white surface with a fairly well determined temperature of 21,900 kelvins, so hot that most of the radiation emerges in the ultraviolet. The combination of temperature and luminosity indicates a radius 4.7 times that of the Sun, and these in conjunction with the theory of stellar structure and stellar evolution tell of an eight-solar-mass star that is roughly midway through its 32-million-year hydrogen-fusing dwarf lifetime.