Tags: Star.
HD 154672 is a yellow subgiant (spectral type G3 IV). It is about 65 parsecs away from the Sun that is larger than but of a similar mass to the Sun. However HD 154672 is much older. The star is very metal-rich which is one of the reasons why it was targeted for a planet search by the N2K Consortium which discovered the gas giant planet HD 154672 b using Doppler Spectroscopy; the discovery was reported in October 2008.
