A-type star · white star
Jabbah
Jabbah is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,266 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 462× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 474 years ago.
Also catalogued as Nu Sco · HR 6027 · HD 145502 · HIP 79374
9,266 K
temperature
4.00
apparent magnitude
462× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
462×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
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.