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What is it like on Procyon?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Procyon or Alpha Canis Minor is a not a single star but a binary system.

The primary star Procyon A is a white main sequence star approximately 1.5 solar masses and a diameter of 2 solar diameters. It luminosity is about 7 times that of the sun and surface temperature is about 6,700 Kelvin.

The secondary star Procyon B is a dim white dwarf star with the mass of about 0.6 solar masses and a diameter of 0.01 that of the sun. It's luminosity is 0.00055 that of the sun and surface temperate of about 7,700 Kelvin.

Current theories of Procyon A suggest that it is too bright to be an ordinary main sequence star. It may well be a subgiant star having fused all the hydrogen in it's core to helium. The fusion moves out in a shell around the core causing the star to expand until it is about 80 - 100 times its current size.

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