9 Sagittarii

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9 Sagittarii is a massive, luminous O-type star system in the constellation Sagittarius that plays a key role in energizing and illuminating the surrounding interstellar gas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf O-type star
massive star
spectroscopic binary
stellar system
age a few million years
apparentMagnitudeV 5.97
belongsToClusterOrAssociation NGC 6530 region NERFINISHED
binaryStatus double-lined spectroscopic binary
catalogDesignation CD−24 13810 NERFINISHED
HD 164794 NERFINISHED
HIP 88333 NERFINISHED
HR 6727 NERFINISHED
SAO 186149 NERFINISHED
colorIndexBminusV +0.19
componentCount 2
constellation Sagittarius NERFINISHED
declination −24°21′38″
distance approximately 1,500 parsecs
approximately 5,000 light-years
drivesIonization Lagoon Nebula H II region NERFINISHED
drivesStellarWindBubble yes
effectiveTemperature about 40,000 K
energizes surrounding interstellar gas
equatorialCoordinateSystem ICRS NERFINISHED
evolutionaryStatus main-sequence
galacticEnvironment Lagoon Nebula NERFINISHED
galacticLatitude −1.2 degrees
galacticLongitude 6.0 degrees
hasStellarWind yes
ionizingPhotonSourceFor M8 (Lagoon Nebula) NERFINISHED
locatedIn Milky Way
Sagittarius OB1 association NERFINISHED
luminosity several hundred thousand times solar luminosity
mass greater than 40 solar masses
notableFor high-mass O-type binary in Lagoon Nebula
strong ionizing radiation field
orbitalPeriod approximately 9.1 days
parallax 0.66 mas
primaryComponentType O-type main-sequence star
properMotionDec −2.27 mas/yr
properMotionRA −0.88 mas/yr
radialVelocity +11 km/s
rightAscension 18h03m52s
secondaryComponentType O-type main-sequence star
spectralType O4 V((f))
variableType eclipsing binary candidate
visibleToNakedEye yes

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Messier 8 hasNotableStar 9 Sagittarii
Lagoon Nebula notableIonizingStar 9 Sagittarii