Bet

Highly luminous star

Its story

Beta Scuti is a yellow bright giant of the Shield, fifty-five times wider than the Sun and pouring out the light of around 1,300. It is also a spectroscopic binary: every 2.3 years a much fainter blue companion completes one orbit around the primary on a markedly eccentric path. At 916 light-years, its light crosses the quiet band of the summer Milky Way before reaching us.

Constellation: Scutum
Apparent magnitude: 4.22
Distance: 916.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 281.794° · Dec -4.748°
Catalogue: HIP 92175 · HD 173764

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