Antares
At a glance
- Type
- Star
- Distance
- Nearby (under 1,000 light years)
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- Before telescopes (before 1600)
- Colour
- Orange, Red
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- The name Antares means rival of Mars, because the two can look alike in the night sky.
- If Antares sat where the Sun is, it would stretch out beyond the orbit of Mars.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q12166 · All space objects · All entries