SpazeSun-like star
Alpha Centauri A
The brighter half of the nearest Sun-like pair. To the naked eye, the pair is the third-brightest star in the night sky.
- Distance
- 4.4 light years
- Surface
- 5,517 °C
- Size
- 1.2 × the Sun
Outer layers
- H 73%
- He 25%
- O, C, Fe and heavier 2%
Glowing hydrogen plasma
Modelled from typical stellar abundances