Overview
System: HIP 75021 - All bodies
Distance to Sol: 164.30 ly
Spectral Class: K - Scoopable
Luminosity Class: V - Main-sequence star (dwarf)
Age: 10,964 Million years
Solar Masses: 0.6992
Solar Radius: 0.7885
Surface Temperature: 4,731 K
Absolute Magnitude: 6.8648
Materials:
None
Stations:
None
Attractions: None

Class K stars are yellow-orange main sequence stars with a long and generally stable life. They range in mass from 0.6 to 0.9 solar masses and have a surface temperature reaching 5,000 K.

The term dwarf star refers to a variety of distinct classes of stars. The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars - classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme - could be divided into two distinct groups. They are either much brighter than the Sun, or much fainter. To distinguish these groups, he called them "giant" and "dwarf" stars, the dwarf stars being fainter and the giants being brighter than the sun.

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