B-type star · blue-white star
Shaula
Shaula is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 571 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,381 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6,009× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 1.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 571 years ago.
Also catalogued as Lambda Sco · HR 6527 · HD 158926 · HIP 85927
14,381 K
temperature
1.62
apparent magnitude
6,009× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5IV+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
571 years
at light speed from Earth
2.49×
as hot as the Sun
6,009×
the Sun's light output
-4.60
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.