Antares
The red heart of the scorpion.
Antares is the brightest star in Scorpius, a red supergiant often called the heart of the scorpion, about 170 parsecs away. It is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky.
It is a binary: the red supergiant, large enough to reach the asteroid belt if placed at the Sun, and a hot main-sequence companion.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Red supergiant (binary)
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Distance
- ~170 pc
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