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Shaula The star Lambda Scorpii, magnitude 1.6, a B1.5 subgiant 703 l.y. away. It is a variable Beta Cephei star, varying by about 0.05 mag. with a period of 5.1 hours.

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Shaula bright star in the constellation Scorpius ; Bayer designation Lambda Scorpii; 1992 position R.A. 17 ^h 33.7 ^m , Dec. -37°06′. 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."

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