This is a picture of Antares, which is a red super giant star that has gone through several stages of stellar evolution. Becoming a red giant takes a certain amount of mass, which is less than three solar masses. The star evolves and as it runs out of hydrogen to burn, it expands and evolves into a red giant. Antares is 850 times the diameter of our sun, 15 times more massive, and 10,000 times brighter. Antares is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is clearly visible in the summer night sky from Florida.
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