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Antares

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Antares Is Even Bigger Than Astronomers Thought

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What If Our Sun Was Antares?

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Zooming in on the red supergiant star Antares

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Antares a bright Supergiant! Here's everything you should know about the star.

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Antares, also designated Alpha Scorpii, is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. Distinctly reddish when viewed with the naked eye, Antares is a slow irregular variable star that ranges in brightness from apparent magnitude +0.6 to +1.6. Often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion", Antares is flanked by Sigma and Tau Scorpii in the centre of the constellation.