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Xi
Binary systemIts story
Xi Scorpii is a multiple system in the body of the Scorpion, where several yellow and white stars share an intricate gravitational dance some eighty light-years away. Its main components split with a modest telescope, offering one of the finest double-star sights of the northern summer. It is one of the stellar knots that has taught astronomers most about the real masses of stars.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.00
- Distance
- 79.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 241.092° · Dec -11.375°
- Catalogue
- HYG 119059 · HD 144069
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