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    (Upper Scorpius) to roughly 15 million years (Upper Centaurus–Lupus and Lower Centaurus–Crux). Many of the bright stars in the constellations Scorpius, Lupus...
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    longshoreman's hook. Most of them are massive members of the nearest OB association: ScorpiusCentaurus. The star δ Sco, after having been a stable 2.3 magnitude star...
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    cross asterism. Many of these brighter stars are members of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, a large but loose group of hot blue-white stars that appear...
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    V1400 Centauri (category Centaurus)
    Centaurus at a distance of 451 light-years away from the Sun. V1400 Centauri is a member of Upper Centaurus–Lupus subgroup of the ScorpiusCentaurus association...
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    Antares (category Upper Scorpius)
    brightest and most evolved stellar member of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, the nearest OB association to the Sun. It is located about 170 parsecs (550 ly)...
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    suggests that the subgroups Lower Centaurus–Crux (LCC) and Upper Centaurus–Lupus (UCL), of the ScorpiusCentaurus association created both the local bubble...
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    that located a dozen OB associations within 650 parsecs of the Sun. The nearest OB association is the ScorpiusCentaurus association, located about 400 light-years...
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    J1407b (category Centaurus)
    for brightness variability in candidate low-mass stars of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, which they had been studying since 2009.: 4  Mamajek, Pecaut...
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    Many of the constellation's brighter stars are members of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, a loose group of hot blue-white stars that appears to share...
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    I Bubble was created by supernovae and stellar winds in the ScorpiusCentaurus association, some 500 light years from the Sun. The Loop I Bubble contains...
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    belong to the ScorpiusCentaurus association and Theta Carinae, which is the brightest star of IC 2602, might also belong to the Lower Centaurus–Crux subgroup...
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  • (Portuguese) Preibisch, T., Mamajek, E. (2008). "The Nearest OB Association: ScorpiusCentaurus (Sco OB2)". Handbook of Star-Forming Regions. 2: 0. arXiv:0809...
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    HD 129116 (category Centaurus)
    to the Upper Centaurus–Lupus subgroup of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, the nearest OB association to the Sun. This is an association of stars with...
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    cloud complex Taurus molecular cloud Perseus molecular cloud ScorpiusCentaurus association "NAME ORI COMPLEX". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques...
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    that located a dozen OB associations within 650 parsecs of the Sun. The nearest OB association is the ScorpiusCentaurus association, located about 400 light-years...
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    Alpha Lupi (category Upper Centaurus Lupus)
    motion member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus sub-group in the ScorpiusCentaurus OB association, the nearest such co-moving association of massive stars to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Local Interstellar Cloud
    (280 mi). The cloud is flowing outwards from the ScorpiusCentaurus association, a stellar association that is a star-forming region, roughly perpendicular...
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  • EPIC 204278916 (category Scorpius)
    dwarf. It is part of the Upper Scorpius sub-group of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, and is in the constellation Scorpius. The star is approximately the...
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    Acrux (category Lower Centaurus Crux)
    was 66% likely to be a member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux sub-group of the ScorpiusCentaurus association. It was not previously seen to be a member of...
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    1RXS J160929.1−210524 (category Scorpius)
    constellation of Scorpius. The star was identified as a member of the Upper Scorpius subgroup of the ScorpiusCentaurus association by Thomas Preibisch...
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    Mu1 Scorpii (category ScorpiusCentaurus association)
    constellation of Scorpius. The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is about magnitude 3, making it one of the brighter members of Scorpius. Based upon...
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    Delta Crucis (category Lower Centaurus Crux)
    Crucis is a member of the Lower Centaurus Crux (LCC) component of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, which is an OB association of massive stars that share...
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    HIP 81208 (category Scorpius)
    distantly orbiting the primary star. The stars are part of the ScorpiusCentaurus association. In 2023, HIP 81208 C was found to be orbited by a substellar...
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    singly, for example Betelgeuse in the Orion OB1 association and Antares in the ScorpiusCentaurus association. Since 2006, a series of massive clusters have...
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    million years old. Beta Pictoris may have been formed near the ScorpiusCentaurus association. The collapse of the gas cloud which resulted in the formation...
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  • Thumbnail for B Centauri b
    Telescope to search for planets around B-type stars in the ScorpiusCentaurus association. SPHERE is equipped with a sophisticated coronagraph that blocks...
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  • Tau Librae (category Upper Centaurus Lupus)
    properties, this system is a member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus group of the ScorpiusCentaurus association. It is double-lined spectroscopic binary with...
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  • Platais 8 (category Stellar associations)
    suggests that Platais 8 might have formed near the area where the Scorpius-Centaurus association is located. The SIMBAD database lists the cluster having 28...
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    Mu2 Scorpii (category Scorpius)
    parallax measurements. It is a member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus subgroup of the ScorpiusCentaurus association. This is a blue-white, B-type subgiant star...
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    proposed to be a member of the ScorpiusCentaurus association, however it is not located near the subgroups of that association, and has not been included...
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