The star is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.97.

[2] It is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +4.4 km/s[2] and has a high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.621 arc seconds per annum.

[9] This object has a stellar classification of G4 V-IV,[3] being rather unusually bright for a main sequence star of its type and thus may be just starting to evolve into the subgiant phase.

It is radiating 3.05 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,473 K.[6] The metallicity – a term astronomers use to describe the abundance of elements heavier than helium – is near solar.

[13] The discovery of the planet around 70 Virginis was announced on January 17, 1996 at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Antonio, Texas.