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Hadar or Agena, Beta Centauri, is a blue-white giant star that is approximately 525 light-years from the Solar system. It is the eleventh brightest star seen from Earth.

The name hadar comes from the Arabic word for "ground", while the name agena comes from Latin words for "the knee".


Hadar is also a site on the River Awash in Ethiopia, in the AfarAfar is one of the nine ethnic divisions kililoch of Ethiopia. Its capital is Asayita. Covering 96,707 km2 in the northeast of the country, its population (as of 1999) is 1,188,000. The Afar language is spoken in the district. Afar was the site of the dis Triangle. It is most famous for being the site of the discovery of LucyFor all other uses of the word Lucy see Lucy (disambiguation . Lucy is a 3. 18 million year old female hominid, of the genus Australopithecus whose skeleton was discovered on November 30, 1974 by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in the Afar Triangle of Ethiop, a three million year old fossilised specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.

Stars ArchaeologyArchaeology or archeology ( American English) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. The goal of archaeology is to sh Centauri, Beta

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