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Mu2 Scorpii

B-type star in the constellation of Scorpius

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
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Source-derived summary

Mu2 Scorpii, also named Pipirima, is a star in the zodiac constellation of Scorpius. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.56, which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Its distance from the Sun is about 474 light-years, as determined by parallax measurements. It is a member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus subgroup of the Scorpius–Centaurus association. A super-Jupiter or brown dwarf is known to orbit it, and another is suspected.

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“Mu2 Scorpii” enters the record as b-type star in the constellation of Scorpius. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scorpii, B-type and star can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 74-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scorpii, B-type and star.
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“Mu2 Scorpii” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scorpii, B-type and star provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mu2 Scorpii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.