Rigil Kentaurus
The bright star of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Sun: two stars like the Sun that look like one to the eye.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude −0.01, the 4th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 4.3 light years
- Kind of star
- Yellow main-sequence star, spectral type G2 V
- Light it gives out
- About 1.5 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Centaurus, where it is α Centauri
- Catalogue number
- HIP 71683
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources