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The full name of this beautiful beast is G-type main sequence star. this star has the surface temperature of beetween 5,300 and 6,000 K (kelvin). Our Sun, in the middle of the solar system, is a G-type star. Each second, the Sun fuses approximately 600 million tons of hydrogen to helium, converting about 4 million tons of matter to energy. The sun is typically white and it but it can often appear yellow, red or orange because of Earth's atmosphere. Other than the Sun, some well-known examples of G-type main-sequence stars are Alpha Centauri A, Tau Ceti, and 51 Pegasi.

Alpha Centauri A, also known as Rigil Kentaurus, is the principal member, or primary, of the binary system. Tau Ceti is a single star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, even though it has only 78% of the Suns mass. 51 Pegasi (abbreviated 51 Peg), formally named Helvetios is a Sun-like star located 50.45 light-years (15.47 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.