Key facts
- Type
- Class of medium-small main sequence star
- Mass range
- 0.60–0.86 M ☉
- Temperature
- 3,930–5,290 K
- Average luminosity
- 0.079–0.47 L ☉
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- dwarf star
- Part of
- main sequence
- Image
- NASA-JPL-Caltech - Double the Rubble (PIA11375) (pd) - cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Orange dwarfs
- topic's main category
- Category:K-type main-sequence stars
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Encyclopedic overview
A K-type main-sequence star (also called a "K-type dwarf" or "orange dwarf") is a main-sequence (core hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type K. The spectral luminosity class is V. These stars are intermediate in size between red dwarfs and yellow dwarfs, hence the term orange dwarfs often applied to this type.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “K-type main-sequence star” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.