Both are red supergiants.
Antares is a slow variable star. All stars are "thermal"
orange
The red giants like Betelgeuse and Antares are bright and - relatively - cool.
The red giants like Betelgeuse and Antares are bright and - relatively - cool.
The red giants like Betelgeuse and Antares are bright and - relatively - cool.
Polaris is the closest of the three stars.
Betelgeuse and Antares are both prominent red supergiant stars, but Betelgeuse is generally brighter than Antares. Betelgeuse has an apparent magnitude of about 0.42, while Antares has an apparent magnitude of around 1.0. This means that Betelgeuse appears brighter in the night sky compared to Antares. However, both stars are among the brightest in their respective constellations.
Antares or Alpha Scorpii is a red supergiant star of spectral type M1.5 Iab. It is about 65,000 times more luminous than our sun.
Antares (Alpha Scorpii) is a huge red hypergiant star, with a radius 800 times that of our own sun. There are some bigger stars though, such as Betelgeuse (1180 solar radii) and V354 Cephei (1520 solar radii), but the biggest known star is VY Canis Majoris, which is estimated to have a diameter between 1800 and 2100 times that of our own sun. If it were in the centre of our solar system its edges would almost reach the orbit of Saturn.
All visible stars are within the the Milky Way Galaxy. Antares is no exception.
Betelgeuse (Orion) and Antares (Scorpio).
There is lots of information available about the star named Antares. It can be found in libraries, or online. Antares is one of the largest stars that man has ever discovered.