Star in the constellation Cygnus
41 Cygni is a single[ 9] star in the northern constellation of Cygnus , located near the southern border with Vulpecula . It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.02.[ 2] The star lies at a distance of around 770 light years from the Sun, based on parallax , and is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −18 km/s.[ 4]
This is a sharp-lined supergiant star [ 10] with a stellar classification of F5Ib-II.[ 3] It is 85[ 6] million years old with 5.3[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 9.5 km/s.[ 3] Having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core , the star has expanded to 27[ 7] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating about 1,200[ 7] times the Sun's luminosity from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,533 K.[ 7]
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