B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5998
HR 5998 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 390 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,625 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 390 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 144661 · HIP 79031
10,625 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
36.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
390 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
36.85×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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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.