Shaula
The sting in the Scorpion’s tail, a hot blue star.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.62, the 27th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 571 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white subgiant, spectral type B1.5 IV
- Light it gives out
- About 6,000 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Scorpius, where it is λ Scorpii
- Catalogue number
- HIP 85927
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Ptolemy’s ClusterAn open cluster in Scorpius, about three fingers away.
- Butterfly ClusterAn open cluster in Scorpius, about three fingers away.
- Kaus AustralisA blue-white giant in Sagittarius, about a fist away.
- Lagoon NebulaA nebula in Sagittarius, about a fist away.
- Trifid NebulaA nebula in Sagittarius, about a hand span away.