Alpha Centauri B
Sign in to saveAlso known as Toliman, α Centauri B, LHS 51, α Cen B, SPOCS 609, LTT 5807, LFT 1128, Alpha2 Centauri
star in the constellation Centaurus
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- K-type main-sequence star
- Part of
- Alpha Centauri
- Official name
- Toliman
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Child body
- Alpha Centauri Bc
- Distance from Earth
- 1.295
- Radius
- 0.8632
- Mass
- 0.934
- Image
- Artist’s impression of a planet around Alpha Centauri B (symbolic, annotated).jpg
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- spectral class
- K2IVC2+1**
- companion of
- Alpha Centauri A
- catalog code
- α² Cen
- Commons category
- Alpha Centauri B
- apparent magnitude
- -0.60
- right ascension
- 219.896096290
- declination
- -60.837527566
- effective temperature
- 5214
- parallax
- 743
- radial velocity
- -20.7
- metallicity
- 0.09
- epoch
- J2000.0
- stellar rotational velocity
- 3.52
- surface gravity
- 27540
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3598
- declination component of proper motion
- 693
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