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the red supergiant that dares mars to a staring contest every summer, and mars blinks first.
means the brightest star in scorpius, a dying red supergiant so bloated it would swallow the orbit of mars if you dropped it into our solar system.
from greek anti-ares, literally rival of mars, coined because its rusty glow could be mistaken for the red planet whenever they wander close together in the sky.
sizeroughly 700 times wider than the sun
fatewill likely explode as a supernova soon, cosmically speaking
colorburns red because it is cooling and dying
distanceabout 550 light-years from earth