AKA: Alpha Scorpii
Class: Star (Red Supergiant, M1.5Iab-b / B2.5V)
Distance: 5.68e+15 km (600 ly)
16th brightest star in the night sky.
A slow variable star.
Its radius is 800 times that of the sun.
If it were placed in the center of our solar system, its surface would be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.