Lesath

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Hot blue star

Its story

Lesath sits at the Scorpion's stinger, beside Shaula, forming what the ancients called 'the cat's eyes'. A hot blue star burning at 576 light-years, her light departed when the Catholic Monarchs were signing the Capitulations of Granada. The name derives from the Arabic «al-laṣʿa», the sting: a precise word for a star that emerges exactly where mythological venom should rise.

Constellation: Scorpius
Apparent magnitude: 2.70
Distance: 576.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 262.691° · Dec -37.296°
Catalogue: HIP 85696 · HD 158408

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