Star profile
Jabbah
Nu Scorpii · Scorpius
Hot blue starWhat is Jabbah
Jabbah is a hot blue star in the body of the Scorpion, its Arabic name «al-jabhah» meaning «the forehead». Telescopically it proves to be a multiple system, several blue suns bound by gravity into a small stellar court that the naked eye perceives as a single point. Its light departed 474 years ago, when Copernicus had only just published his revolutionary heliocentric hypothesis.
Where it is and when to see it
Jabbah lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Jabbah
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.00
- Distance
- 474.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 242.999° · Dec -19.461°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79374 · HD 145502
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Other stars in Scorpius
Scorpius has 104 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AntaresAlpha Scorpii1.06
- ShaulaLambda Scorpii1.62
- SargasTheta Scorpii1.86
- Zeta 2 Scorpii3.62
- IklilRho Scorpii3.87
- Omega 1 Scorpii3.93
- HIP 813044.18
- HIP 809114.24