For other stars with this Bayer designation

Bayer designation

A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...

, see Tau Serpentis

Tau Serpentis

The Bayer designation Tau Serpentis is shared by a collection of eight stars, τ1 Serpentis through τ8 Serpentis, in the head of the constellation Serpens. They are distributed within a box of size 40 minutes in right ascension by 3.5° in declination...

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Tau⁸ Serpentis (Tau⁸ Ser, τ⁸ Serpentis, τ⁸ Ser) is an A-type main sequence

Main sequence

The main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness. These color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell...

 star

Star

A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...

 in the constellation

Constellation

In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

 of Serpens, approximately 320 light-years from the Earth

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

. It has an apparent visual magnitude of approximately 6.144. Although it was observed to be binary

Binary star

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star, comes, or secondary...

 by speckle interferometry in 1985, subsequent observations show no sign of binarity, and the detection appears to have been spurious.