B-type star · blue-white star
Fang
Fang is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 586 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,121 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,961× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 586 years ago.
Also catalogued as Pi Sco · HR 5944 · HD 143018 · HIP 78265
13,121 K
temperature
2.89
apparent magnitude
1,961× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1V + B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
586 years
at light speed from Earth
2.27×
as hot as the Sun
1,961×
the Sun's light output
-3.38
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.