A-type star · white star
Zubenelgenubi
Zubenelgenubi is a white star in the constellation Libra 75.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 76 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha² Lib · HR 5531 · HD 130841 · HIP 72622 · Gliese Gl 564.1
8,597 K
temperature
2.75
apparent magnitude
37.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
76 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
37.36×
the Sun's light output
0.92
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.