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Stellar association in Scorpius

Proper Names	Upper Scorpius Association, Antares Cluster
Messier Number	None
NGC/IC Number	None
Other Designations	Collinder 302
Constellation	Scorpius
Right Ascension	16h 26m 6s
Declination	-26° 14' 0"
Distance	420 light years 129 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +1.00 Absolute: -4.55
Diameter	Apparent: 8° 20' Actual: c. 60 light years
Number of Stars	c. 450
Brightest Star	Antares
Optimum Visibility	June
Notes	One of a series of clusters and clouds that run along the Milky Way between Scorpius and Centaurus, known collectively as the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. It is composed of young, massive stars with rapid lifecycles. Despite being less than twenty million years old - a brief time in terms of stellar evolution - some of these stars have already erupted into supernovae.

The Upper Scorpius Association is a grouping of several hundred stars clustered around Antares (the bright red-orange star near the centre of this image), and so sometimes known as the Antares Cluster. It forms part of the more extensive Scorpius-Centaurus Association, the nearest O B association (association of O-type and B-type stars) to the Sun at an estimated distance of more than four hundred light years. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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