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Gamma Velorum (Suhail, Suhail al Muhlif, Regor) is a star system in the constellation Vela.

With a magnitude of +1.7, it is one of the brightest "stars" in the night sky.

It consists of at least six stars, but appears to the naked eye as a single star.

The brightest star is a blue supergiant with a spectral class of O9 which is accompanied by a massive Wolf-Rayet star.

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Regor is not an official name, it was invented as a practical joke by the Apollo 1 astronaut Gus Grissom for his fellow astronaut Roger Chaffee.

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