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    Solar-type stars, solar analogs (also analogues), and solar twins are stars that are particularly similar to the Sun. The stellar classification is a...
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    such criteria as planet size, surface gravity, star size and type (i.e. Solar analog), orbital distance and stability, axial tilt and rotation, similar geography...
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    observable using current technology. A solar analog (or "solar twin") is a star that resembles the Sun. No solar twin with an exact match as that of the...
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    Zeta Reticuli (category Solar analogs)
    distance of about 39.3 light-years (12 parsecs) from Earth. Both stars are solar analogs that have characteristics similar to those of the Sun. They belong to...
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    Tau Ceti (category Solar-type stars)
    events than present day Earth. Despite this hurdle to habitability, its solar analog (Sun-like) characteristics have led to widespread interest in the star...
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    a yellow dwarf, of type G2V, these types of stars are also known as solar analogs. They rank third among the most common main sequence stars, after red...
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    symbols Planetary mnemonic HIP 11915 (a solar analog whose planetary system contains a Jupiter analog) Solar System at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions...
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    Dyson sphere (category Solar power)
    civilization. SETI has looked for such infrared-heavy spectra from solar analogs, as has Fermilab. Fermilab discovered 17 potential "ambiguous" candidates...
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  • transferred life from another planet to Earth or vice versa. Star cluster Solar analog HD 186302 Anderson, E.; Francis, Ch. (May 2012). "XHIP: An extended hipparcos...
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    2020). "Two Directly Imaged, Wide-orbit Giant Planets around the Young, Solar Analog TYC 8998-760-1". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 898 (1): L16. arXiv:2007...
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    (1 April 2021). "Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young solar analog YSES 2". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 648: A73. arXiv:2104.08285. Bibcode:2021A&A...
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  • (2016). "Chromospheric activity and evolutionary age of the Sun and four solar twins". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 591: A89. arXiv:1607.01279. Bibcode:2016A&A...
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    Jupiter, that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 157 light-years (48 parsecs) from the Solar System. It is sometimes...
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    the Solar System's terrestrial planets closer to being "oxygen planets" with C/O molar ratio of 0.55. In 2020, survey of the 249 nearby solar analog stars...
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    Analog horror is a subgenre of horror fiction and an offshoot of the found footage film genre, said to have its origins in online horror of the late 2000s...
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    around K-type dwarf stars. Also called a "K-type dwarf" or "orange dwarf" Solar analog G-type main-sequence star Star count, survey of stars E. Mamajek (2022-04-16)...
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    of planets Ocean world Planetary habitability Rare Earth hypothesis Solar analog Space colonization Super-Earth Superhabitable planet Terrestrial planet...
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  • HD 147513 (category Solar analogs)
    (2004). "The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets XII. Orbital solutions for 16 extra-solar planets discovered with CORALIE". Astronomy and...
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    Alpha Centauri (category Solar analogs)
    planet. In the Solar System, it was once thought that Jupiter and Saturn were probably crucial in perturbing comets into the inner Solar System, providing...
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    HD 107146 (category Solar analogs)
    the stellar classification G2V, making this a solar analog. The mass of this star is about 109% of the solar mass (M☉) and it has about 99% the radius of...
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    HD 63433 (category Solar analogs)
    classified as a solar analog. HD 63433, however, is much younger than the Sun, having an age of 414 million years, just 9% of the solar age of 4.6 billion...
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    +4.29 implies a visual luminosity around 60% greater than the Sun. A solar analog, with a spectral type of G1V, it has a similar mass to that of the Sun...
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  • HD 45350 (category Solar analogs)
    HD 45350 is a solar analog star with an exoplanetary companion in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 7.89, which...
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    Beta Canum Venaticorum (category Solar analogs)
    this star is very similar to the Sun. As a result, it has been called a solar analog. It is about 3% less massive than the Sun, with a radius 3% larger than...
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    only 12 parsecs away. It has an exoplanet orbiting around it. Another solar analog in Serpens is the primary of Psi Serpentis, a binary star located slightly...
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    dwarf" or "yellow dwarf" G-dwarf problem Hertzsprung–Russell diagram Solar analog Star count, survey of stars Yellow hypergiant "Why Does The Sun Shine...
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    HD 10307 (category Solar analogs)
    mass. It has a low level of activity and is a candidate Maunder minimum analog. HR 483 B, the smaller component, appears to be a red dwarf, with as little...
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    Alpha Fornacis (category Solar analogs)
    Holmberg, J.; et al. (July 2009). "The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the solar neighbourhood. III. Improved distances, ages, and kinematics". Astronomy...
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  • Kepler-84 (category Solar analogs)
    Kepler-84 is a Sun-like star 3,339 light-years from the Sun. It is a G-type star. The stellar radius measurement has a large uncertainty of 48% as in 2017...
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    18 Scorpii (category Solar analogs)
    Sun-Like Stars. II. Contemporaneous Photometry and Spectroscopy of Bright Solar Analogs". The Astronomical Journal. 138 (1): 312–322. Bibcode:2009AJ....138...
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