Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has the Bayer 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 the center of the constellation.

Jan 26, 2025 · Discover Antares, the red supergiant star in Scorpius. Learn how to find it in the sky and when the star will meet the Moon and planets in 2024-2025.

Jan 21, 2025 · Antares, red, semiregular variable star, with apparent visual magnitude about 1.1, the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius and one of the largest known stars, having several hundred times the diameter of the Sun and 10,000 times the Sun’s luminosity.

Sep 3, 2020 · The primary star that can be seen with your unaided eye is the red supergiant; its companion — Antares B — is a smaller main-sequence B-type star of 5 th magnitude. It’s visible but easily lost in the glare of its rival and requires a fairly large telescope to see.

Jun 19, 2024 · Antares is an eye-catching star, shining with a distinctive bright red sparkle on northern summer evenings. Indeed, in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s a red beacon in winter evening skies. This star,...

Antares is a very large star located in the southern sky. This red supergiant is also called Alpha Scorpii ( α Scorpii) and it is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. It lies near the center of Scorpius. And with its reddish hue, is often dubbed the “heart of the scorpion.”

Aug 18, 2017 · Johann Tobias Bürg, an Austrian astronomer, spotted the fifth-magnitude star on April 13, 1819, when the moon covered Antares. According to NASA, the star has eaten all its hydrogen and is...

Aug 5, 2023 · Antares, Alpha Scorpii (α Sco) is a red supergiant star located at an approximate distance of 550 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.96, it is the brightest star in Scorpius and the 15th brightest star in the sky.

Antares (α Scorpii, Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is listed as 15th or 16th brightest, depending on how the two brighter components of the Capella quadruple star system are counted.

Apr 16, 2015 · Antares is a red supergiant star burning 10,000 times brighter than our own sun 550 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius. The star is the 16th brightest in the night sky, and can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere from late spring to early winter, where it shines with a variable magnitude of 0.9 to 1.8.