Antares (α Scorpii / Alpha Scorpii) is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic.
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(ntâr´z), brightest star in the constellation Scorpius; Bayer designation Alpha Scorpii; 1992 position R.A. 16h27.6m, Dec. −26°22&minut;.
Antares in science fiction
Uhura sings 'Beyond Antares'
Like many of the brightest stars in Earth's sky, Antares figures prominently in science fiction.
Antares (α Scorpii / Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky (sometimes listed as fifteenth brightest, ...
Antares maelstrom
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The Antares maelstrom is a powerful and destructive astronomical phenomenon in the Antares system.
Antares
A yellow-orange supergiant star 600 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
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ANTARES (Alpha Scorpii). A brilliant jewel set within the Milky Way, Antares guides us to one of the great constellations of the sky, the Zodiac's Scorpius (or Scorpio), the celestial scorpion, ...
Antares gets its name from the ancient Greeks. It means Anti-Ares. Ares is, of course, the Greek god of War who is also called Mars by the Romans.
Antares A is the cool red M1.5Iab-Ib supergiant primary of a double star system. The effective temperature is about 3100 K. The star is approximately 10,000 times as luminous as the sun.
Antares - Red Supergiant Star
The region of sky surrounding Antares, known as Rho Ophiuchus.
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ANTARES - In 1670 Sir Christopher Wren starts to rebuild London's churches after the Great fire of London. The colonies of North and South Carolina are founded.
Antares
( Sco) (a) A red supergiant star in the constellation Scorpius. Antares is the brightest star in Scorpius and lies about 500 light-years from Earth, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm.
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(Alpha Scorpii) Antares (meaning "Rival of Mars") is the brightest star in , one of the in the . Antares is a M1.5Iab variable red supergiant star that is about 520 light-years from Earth and is about 230 times as big as the .
Antares is the 16th brightest star in the sky. It is approximately 600 light-years distant from Earth. It is also of the brightest stars near the ecliptic, the Sun's apparent path in the sky.
Antares, Betelgeuse
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Strong metal-hydride molecular bands (CrH, FeH), and neutral metals; TiO and VO bands are nearly absent.
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If Antares resided on the ecliptic (the Earth's orbital plane), this series of Antares' occultations would not be nearly so enduring.
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A system with at least five components which during the 1970s is undergoing a series of occultations by the Moon and by Jupiter. Component A is a spectroscopic binary (B0.5 V, B V). In 1971 component C was occulted by Jo.
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Rho Oph (north of Antares (alpha Sco)) is a nice multiple star system. Small telescopes reveal two B stars of 5.02 mag and 5.92 mag, repsectively. At each side of the stars a companion of 8th mag can be spotted. These four stars form a V-shaped group.
First, the star Antares (RA 16h 29m) is a bright red star, which anciently marked the autumnal equinox, that is, the place in the sky where the sun appears on the first day of autumn.
The brightest star in Scorpius is brilliant Antares, a name that comes from the Greek meaning ‘like Mars' (often translated as ‘rival of Mars') on account of its strong reddish-orange colour, similar to that of the planet Mars.
from Sol, in the southwestern part (16:24:1.3-39:11:34.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion -- east of Eta Lupi, west of the Bug Nebula and Mu1 and Mu2 Scorpii, southwest of Epsilon and Al Niyat (Tau Scorpii), south of Antares ...
It was clearly visible near Antares in binoculars. Dobby resolved it quite well at 48x, nicely showing its equatorial band of bright stars. Then I moved to nearby M80 at 2:15am.
On the 11th Mars is at its closest to Antares. The star and planet will be just under 4° apart from the 10th to the 12th. Thus they will be close enough to be seen together in the field of binoculars.
It is popularly known as the Dark Horse nebula -- the body of the horse runs north-south and its legs point towards the bright star Antares. The hind quarters of the horse make up the (smoker's) Pipe nebula, with the stem pointing to Antares.
Alpha Scorpii is better known as Antares ("Rival of Mars"). This is one of the four Royal Stars of the ancients, along with Aldebaran, Regulus, and Fomalhaut.
040 arcseconds for Antares. Given the then known distances to the stars this meant that Mira and Betelgeuse were about 300 times the size of the Sun and Antares 450 times.
Rho Ophiuchi is that colourful little patch of stellar candy near Antares. It's multicolouredness is caused by the many different processes happening here. Present are both reflection nebulae, and emission nebulae.
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Antares is 9120 times more luminous than the Sun (Antares' luminosity/Sun's luminosity)= 9120) and has a temperature of only 3340 K and the Sun's temperature is 5840 K.
The Cherokee paired Sirius with Antares as a dog-star guardian of either end of the "Path of Souls". The Pawnee of Nebraska had several associations; the Wolf (Skidi) tribe knew it as the "Wolf Star", while other branches knew it as the "Coyote Star".
Named stars: Alpha Sco (Antares/Calbalakrab), Beta Sco (Akrab), Lambda Sco (Shaula)
Info: Scorpius is one of the 13 zodiacal constellations (that is, the Sun passes through it in the course of the year).
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Mars also appears red in the sky ("the red planet"), which is why a prominent reddish star in the constellation Scorpio was named "Antares"--the counterpart (anti-) of Ares, the Greek equivalent to Mars, god of war.
A similar star can be found shining prominently in midsummer. This is the red supergiant Antares in the constellation Scorpius. Depending on the time of year, can you find one of these stars? Why are these stars red?
Returned to Earth: February 9, 1971
Command Module: Kitty Hawk
Lunar Module: Antares
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Alan B. Shepard, Jr., commander
Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot
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The brightest star in Scorpius is Antares, a red supergiant star that is about 500 light-years away from Earth and is about 230 times as big as the Sun. The second-brightest (Beta 1 Sco) is Graffias.
Apollo 14 (Kitty Hawk and Antares) Saturn V January 31-Febraury 09, 1971 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Stuart A. Roosa Edgar D. Mitchell ...
The image spans the region of sky from the constellation of Sagittarius to Scorpius. The very bright and colourful feature towards the right of the image are the Rho Ophiuchi and Antares regions.
Within the stars of the constellation is the bright red star Antares whose name means "rival of Mars". Just like the planet Mars, this star has a brilliant red color, and ancient skywatchers would compare these two red objects.
The ancient Chinese apparently keyed their earliest calendars to the culmination of certain stars such as Antares at sunset on these dates. Because of precession, they found it necessary to revise this system every few centuries.
Of the first magnitude red stars Antares is the most deeply coloured, Betelgeux,.Aldebaran and Arcturus being successively less conspicuously red.
This intense desire to obtain revenge above all else can be witnessed in Khan's dialogue, paraphrasing Captain Ahab: "He tasks me! He tasks me! And I shall have him. I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round ...
density and heat (over 100 million degrees Centigrade) and another type of nuclear reaction starts taking place. The helium atoms (that were originally created from hydrogen) are now fused into atoms such as beryllium and carbon. The star of Antares ...
Antares Alpha Scorpii
Arcturus Alpha Bootis
Arich Gamma Virginis
Arided Alpha Cygni
Arkab Beta Sagittarii
Arkab Prior Beta-1 Sagittarii
Arkab Posterior Beta-2 Sagittarii
Arm Eta Capricorni
Arneb Alpha Leporis
Arrakis Mu Draconis ...
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