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- Antares
Antares
α Scorpii
Antares is a red supergiant, in the constellation Scorpius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1472.
Where to find it
Bright enough to see even from a city. Apparent magnitude 1.06.
What it’s like
It gives off 9,454 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 3,300 degrees.
It is 553.8 light years away: 5239 trillion kilometres.