Star
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a yellow star 11.9 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 12 years ago, shining at 46.6% of the Sun’s brightness.
The closest solitary Sun-like star. In 1960 Project Ozma, the first modern search for alien radio signals, listened to it and heard nothing.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 11.9 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 3.49
- Spectral type
- G8V
- Catalogue
- HIP 8102
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.