Is the Sun an Ordinary or Atypical Star?

[Holocene]

Sun is an "ordinary" star

I've read in different books the Sun is an "ordinary" star, and an "atypical" star.

Anyone know which description is the correct one?

 

[mgb_phys]

It's a G type yellow dwarf which is less than 10% of the stars in our bit of the galaxy ( most are M type red dwarfs) and it's a sngle star rather than a binary which is unusual.
But it is a regular main sequence star about half way through it's life and is no different from any other G2 yellow dwarf.

 

[DaveC426913]

Google "Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram". That will tell you about - and show you pictures of - more than you could possibly want to know about the flavours of stars in general and our sun in particular.