A-type star · white star
Alya B
Alya B is a white star in the constellation Serpens 169 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,132 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 169 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta² Ser · HR 7142 · HD 175639 · HIP 92951
8,132 K
temperature
4.98
apparent magnitude
23.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
169 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
23.94×
the Sun's light output
1.40
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.