Alpha Mensae
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Alpha Mensae is a yellow-orange star
like our Sun, Sol. (See a Digitized
Sky Survey image of Alpha Mensae
from the Nearby Stars Database.) ...
Alpha Mensae is a solar-type star (type G5) 33 light-years from Earth, and is considered a good prospect for harboring an Earthlike planet.
Alpha Men = Alpha Mensae
Pi Men = Pi Mensae #
Microscopium
Alpha Mic = Alpha Microscopii
Gamma Mic = Gamma Microscopii ...
The brightest one, [5433] alpha Mensae, can barely be seen at magnitude 5.09. It is a main sequence dwarf, a G-type star similar to our Sun, approximately 33 light-years from Earth.
 See also: Solar, Planet, Earth, Constellation, Constellations
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