4 Scorpii is a single star in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.6, it is dimly visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions. The distance to this star can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of , which yields a value of around 410 light years. It is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −29 km/s and will reach perihelion in about two million years at an estimated distance of .
The stellar classification of 4 Scorpii is A3 V, indicating this is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star. It has 2.1 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating around 67 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about .
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