Beta Pegasi

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|} Beta Pegasi (β Peg / β Pegasi) is a star in the constellation Pegasus. It also has the traditional name Scheat; confusingly, this name is also sometimes used for Delta Aquarii.

Scheat is unusual among other bright stars in having a relatively cool surface temperature (of 3700 kelvins) in relation to other stars such as the Sun. Scheat is a red giant some 95 times as large as the Sun with a total luminosity of 1500 times solar. It is also an irregular variable star, it's brightness varying from magnitude +2.31 to +2.74.

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