B-type star · blue-white star
1 Sco
1 Sco is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 495 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 282× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 495 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5885 · HD 141637 · HIP 77635
11,122 K
temperature
4.63
apparent magnitude
282× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
495 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
282×
the Sun's light output
-1.28
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.