G Scorpii


G Scorpii, also named Fuyue, is a giant star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has an apparent magnitude of +3.19. It is approximately 126 light-years from the Sun.

Nomenclature

G Scorpii is the star's Bayer designation. It was formerly situated in the constellation of Telescopium where it was designated γ Telescopii, Latinised to Gamma Telescopii. It was resited in Scorpius and redesignated G Scorpii by Gould.
In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name Fuyue for this star on 30 June 2017 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.
G Scorpii bore the traditional name Fuyue, one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.

Properties

G Scorpii is an orange K-type giant. The measured angular diameter is. At the estimated distance of this system, this yields a physical size of about 16 times the radius of the Sun. Calculations based on its physical properties give a diameter if about. With an effective surface temperature of, it has a bolometric luminosity of.
Evolutionary models show that G Scorpii has probably left the red giant branch and is now fusing helium in its core. This makes it a red clump star, at the cool end of the horizontal branch.
Just 5 arcminutes to the east is the globular cluster NGC 6441. At magnitude 3.2, G Scorpii is around 40 times brighter than the entire globular cluster.

In popular culture

In the 191st episode of the "SuperMegaCast", host Matt Watson "bought" the star and named it after his co-host Ryan Magee. This has led to many people attempting to change the Wikipedia article of the star to reflect the name the two comedians gave it on their podcast.