A-type star · white star
Alya
Alya is a white star in the constellation Serpens 155 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,478 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 155 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta¹ Ser · HR 7141 · HD 175638 · HIP 92946
8,478 K
temperature
4.62
apparent magnitude
27.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
155 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
27.80×
the Sun's light output
1.24
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.