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    Antares (redirect from Alpha Scorpii)
    designation α Scorpii, which is Latinised to Alpha Scorpii. Often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion", Antares is flanked by σ Scorpii and τ Scorpii near...
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    Scorpii, Epsilon Scorpii, Zeta1 Scorpii and Zeta2 Scorpii, Eta Scorpii, Iota1 Scorpii and Iota2 Scorpii, Kappa Scorpii, Lambda Scorpii, Mu1 Scorpii and...
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  • 148478 80763 16h 29m 24.47s −26° 25′ 55.0″ 0.91 −5.24 553 M1.5Iab-b Cor Scorpii, Qalb al-Aqrab, Vespertilo; 16th brightest star; binary; semiregular variable...
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    constellations have uppercase letter designations, like B Centauri and G Scorpii. These letters were assigned by later astronomers, notably Lacaille in...
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    Sigma Librae (redirect from Gamma Scorpii)
    current Bayer designation (the star originally bore the designation Gamma Scorpii and did not receive its current designation until the new designation was...
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    also as an X-ray pulsar. In 2016, a white dwarf in the binary system AR Scorpii was identified as a pulsar (it is often mistakenly called the first discovered...
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    scheme: B0: γ Cassiopeiae, δ Scorpii B0.5: β Scorpii B1: ο Persei, β Cephei B2: γ Orionis, π Scorpii, θ Ophiuchi, λ Scorpii B2.5: γ Pegasi, ζ Cassiopeiae...
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    V915 Scorpii (HR 6392, HD 155603) is a hypergiant and semiregular variable star, located 1,718 parsecs (5,600 ly) away in the constellation Scorpius....
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    candidate LBV, but variability has not been confirmed. V4029 Sagittarii V905 Scorpii HD 6884, (R40 in SMC) HD 269700, (R116 in the LMC) LBV 1806-20 in the 1806-20...
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  • 5III 9 Sagittarii 4,100 ± 400 1 O4V((f))z 5.97 15 Sagittarii 4,200±650 1 O9.7 Iab 5.37 HD 149404 (V918 Scorpii) 4,300 ± 400 2 O7.5I(f) + ON9.7I 5.42 -...
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    Loop I Bubble contains the star Antares (also known as α Sco, or Alpha Scorpii), as shown on the diagram above right. Several tunnels connect the cavities...
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  • original on 21 December 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2009. Born, R. "Cor Scorpii". MusicMight. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 25...
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    atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of the red supergiants AH Scorpii, UY Scuti, and KW Sagittarii". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 554: A76. arXiv:1305...
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    announced luminous red novae as a new class of stellar explosion. V1309 Scorpii is a luminous red nova that followed the merger of a contact binary in...
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    spectral lines in stellar atmospheres. His analysis of the B0 star Tau Scorpii, obtained on his 1939 visit to Yerkes and McDonald Observatories, provided...
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  • Bayer’s Uranometria and Bayer letters Catalogued by Bayer as Gamma Scorpii (γ Sco, γ Scorpii), reassigned by Gould to Libra - Burnham, Robert (1978), Burnham's...
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    آخِرُ ٱلْنََهْر Alpha Eridani Acrab ʽAqrab the Scorpion عقرب عَقْرَب Beta Scorpii Acubens ʼaz-Zubānā the Claw / Dart / Sting الزبانى الْزُّبَانَى Alpha Cancri...
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  • particular name corresponded to (e.g., Alniyat could refer to Sigma Scorpii or Tau Scorpii). Some stars in entirely different constellations had the same name:...
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    "Spatial heterodyne tnterferometry of VY Canis Majoris, Alpha Orionis, Alpha Scorpii, and R Leonis at 11 microns". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 217: L97–L100...
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    such systems that conveniently advertise themselves. One example is U Scorpii. Kilonova – Neutron star merger List of supernovae List of supernova remnants...
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    include Polaris, Alpha Leporis, Alpha Persei, Delta Canis Majoris and Iota¹ Scorpii. Many of them are variable stars, mostly pulsating Cepheids such as δ Cephei...
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  • constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, Epsilon Carinae (ε Car) in Carina, Lambda Scorpii (λ Sco) in Scorpius and Sigma Sagittarii (σ Sgr) in Sagittarius. After...
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  • atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of the red supergiants AH Scorpii, UY Scuti, and KW Sagittarii". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 554: A76. arXiv:1305...
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    its temperature relative to the primary star. Examples: Antares (Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in a binary system with a hotter blue main-sequence...
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    further observations of stars similar to V838 Monocerotis, such as V1309 Scorpii, astronomers have reached the conclusion that this is the most likely scenario...
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  • Howard; Lebofsky, Matt; MacMahon, David H. E.; Price, Danny C.; Sheikh, Sofia Z.; Siemion, Andrew P. V.; Drew, Jamie; Worden, S. Pete (2021-11-24). "One of...
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  • Bibcode:2015A&A...583A..49H, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526812 "Notes for mu2 scorpii". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 6 May 2022. "Notes for planet...
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  • Canis Majoris and Sigma Scorpii were found to be variable not long afterwards, Vesto Slipher noted in 1904 that Sigma Scorpii's radial velocity was variable...
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  • Nemanja; Delorme, Jacques-Robert; Chun, Mark; Cetre, Sylvain; Bond, Charlotte Z.; Shappee, B. J.; Payne, Anna V.; Do, Aaron; Tremblin, Pascal; Metchev, Stanimir...
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    handful of stars called recurrent novae, which include T Pyxidis and U Scorpii. An outburst of T Coronae Borealis was first recorded in 1866; its second...
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