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Alpha Leporis (α Lep α Leporis) is the brightest star in the constellation Lepus. It has the traditional name Arneb from the Arabic أرنب ’arnab hare.This is a massive star with about 14 times the mass of the Sun. The interferometer-measured angular diameter of this star after correction for limb darkening is 1.77 ± 0.09 mas. At an estimated distance of 2218 light-years (680 parsecs) this yields a physical size of about 129 times the radius of the Sun.
