Shaula

Related Category: Astronomy: Stars

bright star in the constellation Scorpius; Bayer designation Lambda Scorpii; 1992 position R.A. 17^h33.7^m, Dec. −37°06&minut;. A bluish-white star of spectral class B1 V, its apparent magnitude of 1.62 makes it one of the 25 brightest stars in the sky. Shaula is a spectroscopic binary star. Its distance from the earth is about 300 light-years. Its name is from the Arabic, meaning “raised part of the scorpion's tail.”