Mu Centauri belongs to the group known as 'Be' stars, rapidly-rotating bluestars surrounded by circumstellar discs. The disc is fed by material ejected during periodic eruptions from the star, while the star itself is spinning so fast on its axis (estimated at nearly 200 km per second) that it has become deformed into a flattened spheroid shape.
Mu Centauri forms one vertex of a triangle of bluestars within Centaurus. The other members of the triangle are Nu Centauri to the north and Phi Centauri to the east. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas
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