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Epsilon Scorpii is a star

Star

A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...

in the constellation

Constellation

In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

Scorpius

Scorpius, sometimes known as Scorpio, is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for scorpion, and its symbol is . It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east...

. Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...

introduced the name Wei but this seems to be a misreading; Wěi (尾), meaning the Tail, was originally the name of a Chinese asterism or Xiù
Twenty-eight mansions
The Twenty-eight Mansions , ', ' or ' are part of the Chinese constellations system. They can be considered as the equivalent to the zodiacal constellations in the Western astronomy, though the Twenty-eight Mansions reflect the movement of the Moon in a lunar month rather than the Sun in a solar year...

comprising the stars ε, μ¹

Mu¹ Scorpii

Mu¹ Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius.μ¹ Scorpii is an eclipsing binary of the Beta Lyrae type. Both components are blue-white B-type stars. The primary is a subgiant, while the companion is a cooler dwarf...

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Mu² Scorpii

Mu² Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius.μ² Scorpii is a blue-white B-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +3.56...

, ζ¹

Zeta¹ Scorpii

Zeta1 Scorpii is a B-type hypergiant star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has an apparent visual magnitude which varies between 4.66 and 4.86...

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Zeta² Scorpii

Zeta² Scorpii is a K-type orange giant star in the constellation of Scorpius...

, η

Eta Scorpii

Eta Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius.Eta Scorpii is a yellow-white F-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.32. It is approximately 72.0 light years from Earth....

, θ

Theta Scorpii

Theta Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius. It has the traditional name Sargas, of Sumerian origin....

, ι

Iota Scorpii

There are two stars with the Bayer designation Iota Scorpii:* Iota1 Scorpii* Iota2 ScorpiiThey are separated by 0.50° in the sky.All of them were member of asterism 尾 , Tail, Tail mansion....

, κ

Kappa Scorpii

Kappa Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius. It has the traditional name Girtab, which is the Sumerian word for 'scorpion' and has survived through the Babylonian star catalogues....

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Upsilon Scorpii

Upsilon Scorpii is a star in the constellation Scorpius. It has the traditional name Lesath , from Arabic las'a = "pass of a poisonous animal"; but this is a miscorrection by Scaliger for earlier "Alascha", which came from Arabic al laţkha = "the foggy...

, and λ Scorpii

Lambda Scorpii

Lambda Scorpii is the second brightest star system in the constellation Scorpius, and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. It has the Bayer designation λ despite being the second brightest in its constellation...

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