Star
The brightest star in Libra, once the northern claw of the scorpion, and often reported as looking faintly green.
| Type | Star |
|---|---|
| Distance from Earth | 185 ly |
| Diameter | 6,824,130 km |
| Mass | 6.96 × 10³⁰ kg |
| Temperature | 12,027°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 2.61 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 150 |
Stars spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium in their core, and it's the balance between that outward pressure and gravity pulling inward that fixes how big and how bright a star gets.
At 6,824,130 km across, Zubeneschamali is 4.9 times the diameter of the Sun.
Its mass is 3.5 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Zubeneschamali tonight left it around 185 years ago.
Its surface sits at 12,300 K, hotter than the Sun at 5,772 K, which is what sets its colour.
It has been on record since the year 150.
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