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Tau Ceti
52 Ceti
A small
yellow
star
with a distant
binary
companion. Tau Ceti has a
spectrum
very close to that of the
Earth's
own
Sun
. At a little under 12
light years
away, this is the nearest
Sun
-like (
G-type
)
star
to the
Solar System
, after
Alpha Centauri
.
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