| Alpha Mensae may be the brightest star in the
constellation of Mensa, but its
magnitude of just +5.1 means that it will nevertheless be too faint for many observers to see
unaided. It lies in the far southern sky, in the approximate direction of the Large
Magellanic Cloud. A yellow star, it is in many respects
similar to our own Sun, though a little less massive.
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