B-type star · blue-white star

3 Sco

3 Sco is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 515 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,016 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 515 years ago.

515 lybrightness mag 5.87B8III/IV

Also catalogued as HR 5912 · HD 142301 · HIP 77909

11,016 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
97.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
515 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
97.54×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
3 ScoB-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
Star2 Sco13 ly
StarHR 591019 ly
Star1 Sco22 ly
StarShaulastar
StarSargasstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scorpius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.