Dschubba

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Variable star

Its story

Dschubba traces the brow of Scorpius, just above its curving head. The name, from the Arabic «al-jabhah», means precisely that: the forehead. A hot variable B-class star 491 light years away, it offered a surprise in the year 2000, when an unexpected outburst doubled its brightness and revealed a circumstellar disk of gas spinning swiftly around it.

Constellation: Scorpius
Apparent magnitude: 2.29
Distance: 491.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 240.083° · Dec -22.622°
Catalogue: HIP 78401 · HD 143275

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