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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 temperature is about 3,000 degrees Celsius.
It is 553.8 light years away: 5239 trillion kilometres.