Iot-2

Highly luminous star

Its story

Iota-2 Scorpii is a luminous rarity: a blue-white supergiant burning with nearly six thousand times the Sun's light. Despite lying immensely far —over two and a half thousand light-years deep in Scorpius— it remains visible to the naked eye. Its light, which left before the rise of Christianity, has travelled silently ever since.

Constellation: Scorpius
Apparent magnitude: 4.78
Distance: 2548.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 267.546° · Dec -40.090°
Catalogue: HIP 87294 · HD 161912

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