Procyon
Yellow-white subgiant · Alpha Canis Minoris
Brightest star in Canis Minor
One of the nearest bright stars at about 11 light-years, Procyon is a yellow-white star just beginning to evolve off the main sequence, paired with a faint white-dwarf companion, Procyon B.
Illustration generated from temperature, not a photograph
1.5 ☉
mass (the Sun = 1)
6.9 ×
as bright as the Sun
6,654 K
surface · yellow-white star
2 R☉
radius (the Sun = 1)
11 ly
from Earth
0.4
apparent magnitude
It pours out about 6.9 times the Sun’s light. Its light has been travelling 11 years to reach us, so you see Procyon as it was 11 years ago.
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It lives in
Milky Way
Barred spiral galaxy.
Other notable stars in Milky Way
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