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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5008.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5008. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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The star α Scorpii, said to represent the heart of the scorpion. The name derives from `rival to Mars', that planet being of similar brightness and color at favorable oppositions. It is a striking red supergiant star, spectral type M1Ib, apparent magnitude 1.06. It is 604 light-years distant (parallax 0.005''), its apparent brightness being due to its great intrinsic luminosity (absolute magnitud...

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