- Stars with a name
- Iklil
Iklil
ρ Scorpii
Iklil is a very hot blue star, in the constellation Scorpius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1554.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 3.87.
What it’s like
It gives off 517 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 13,600 degrees.
It is 472.0 light years away: 4466 trillion kilometres.