B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5988

HR 5988 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 526 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,107 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 98.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 526 years ago.

526 lybrightness mag 5.90B8V

Also catalogued as HD 144334 · HIP 78877

11,107 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
98.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
526 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
98.90×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 5988B-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 597312 ly
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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.