[6] It is close enough for its distance to be measured using parallax shifts, which yields a value of roughly 97 light-years (30 parsecs) from the Sun, with a 5% margin of error.

[15] The stellar classification of A8 Vn kA6[3] shows this peculiarity, with the kA6 notation indicating weaker than normal calcium K-lines in the spectrum.

[10] Spectroscopy shows narrow, time-varying absorption features being caused by circumstellar gas moving toward the star.

Alpha Pictoris is categorized as a rapidly rotating shell star that may have recently ejected mass from its outer atmosphere.

[6] Alpha Pictoris is an X-ray source, which is unusual for an A-type star since stellar models don't predict them to have magnetic dynamos.