Alpha Virginis is the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo. It has an apparent magnitude of 0.98, making it the thirteenth brightest star in the night sky. Alpha Virginis is a white dwarf star with a surface temperature of approximately 7,400 K. It has a mass of approximately 2.3 times that of the Sun and a radius of approximately 0.65 times that of the Sun. Alpha Virginis has an absolute magnitude of approximately 5.58, which means that it is approximately 100 times brighter than the Sun.