★ Star 70 Virginis | Nearby stars catalogue

Yellow star 70 Virginis is located 59 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class G4Va B, that has 112 of solar mass. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

70 Virginis

Yellow star (spectral class G4Va B)

Mass: 1.12 M Sun

Size: 1.9 R Sun

Temperature: 5538 K | 0.96 T Sun

Age: 7.9 billions years | 1.72 Sun

Luminosity: 2.92 L Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 4.970

2 exoplanets:

70 Virginis b	2352.5 M⊕	0.48 AU	116.7 days
70 Virginis Dust belt	-	4 AU	0 days

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about 70 Virginis

      Nearby star 70 Virginis can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, and it is possible to see it with naked eye. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia.  70 Virginis is  about 90 % bigger than the Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 5538 K (5265 °C), which is about 96 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
70 Vir, BD+14°2621, GJ 512.1, Gliese 512.1, GJ 9446, Gliese 9446, HD 117176, HIC 65721, HIP 65721, HR 5072, SAO 100582, WDS 13284+1347A, WISEA J132825.63+134637.8, TIC 95473936, TYC 898-1042-1, 2MASS J13282584+1346447, AG+14 1378, NLTT 34214, LFT 1009, LHS 2740, Gaia EDR3 3740176925743994752

External sources

Sources

Simbad database (* 70 Vir )

Gaia database (Gaia EDR3 3740176925743994752)

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