It has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.10[2] and thus is an eighth-magnitude star that is too faint to be readily visible to the naked eye.

[1] HD 49674, and its planetary system, was chosen as part of the 2019 NameExoWorlds campaign organised by the International Astronomical Union, which assigned each country a star and planet to be named.

The winning proposal named the star Nervia and the planet Eburonia, both after prominent Belgic tribes, the Nervii and Eburones, respectively.

[8] This is an ordinary G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G3V,[3] which indicates it is generating energy through hydrogen fusion at its core.

Spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 4.7 km/s,[5] it is younger than the Sun, roughly two billion years of age, and is a metal-rich star.