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Antares
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Antares

Brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and the 15th-brightest star in the night sky. It is a red supergiant several hundred times larger than the Sun and perhaps 10,000 times as luminous. It lies about 420 light years away from the Sun, and varies in brightness.



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