Sized planet has been detected orbiting this star at a distance of 3.2 AU The IRAS satellite detected a lot of dust orbiting this star indicatingДЄ possible forming solar system, and even more recently, (Aug 2000), a Jupiter With the Green Bank radio telescope in 1960. This star was searched for signs of intelligent life Epsilon Eridani - Type= K2, Magnitude=3.7, Distance=10.50 ly An orange dwarf star. Ross 248 - Type= M6, Magnitude=12.3, Distance=10.33 ly Another dim red dwarf. It is one of a number of nearby stars catalogued byДЇrank Ross in the 1930's. Ross 154 - Type= M4, Magnitude=10.4, Distance=9.69 ly A dim red dwarf. Both stars requireДЄbout 200 years to orbit each other. Seen on the surface of the Sun, but far more energetic. Several magnitudes as it ejects flares from its surface similar to the ones It is a famous flare star and can visibly brighten by

Perhaps more famously known as UV Ceti, the variable-star name of the second Luyten 726-8 A,B - Type= M5+M5, Magnitudes=12.4+13.3, Distance=8.73 ly This is a dim binary system consisting of two red dwarfs.

Seen in 1852, the first white dwarf ever seen. Most luminous star within 25 light years. Sirius A,B - Type= A1+ DA, Magnitudes=-1.4+8.4, Distance=8.60 ly This brilliant white star is the brightest star in the night sky and the Sized planets orbiting it but this remains unconfirmed. G Gatewood reported in 1996 the possible indications of a couple of Jupiter The brightest red dwarfs in the sky, but it still needs binoculars to see Lalande 21185 - Type= M2, Magnitude=7.5, Distance=8.31 ly Recorded in JJ Lalande's star catalogue compiled in the 1790's, this is one of Years it was the least luminous star known. Wolf 359 - Type= M6, Magnitude=13.5, Distance=7.80 ly An excessively dim red dwarf discovered by Max Wolf in 1918. InДЄnother 8000 years Barnard's Star will become the closest star to us. Unseen planets orbiting it, but later observations disproved this. DiscoveredД«y E Barnard in 1916, it was thought in the 1960's to have a couple of Travels 0.29 degrees against the background sky in a century. Barnard's Star - Type= M5, Magnitude=9.6, Distance=5.94 ly Famous for having the largest proper motion of any star, this dim red dwarf

Seen from Alpha Centauri, the third member of the system, Year period, together they make up one of the brightest objects in southern Alpha Centauri A,B - Type= G2+ K0, Magnitudes=0.0+1.4, Distance=4.39 ly Just slightly further from us than Proxima, lie the orange and yellowДwarf stars that make up Alpha Centauri. It is also a flare star - capable of brightening a magnitude Proxima wasДiscovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and was at that time the least luminous Pair of stars, requiring over one million years to orbit them. Proxima Centauri - Type= M5, Magnitude=11.0, Distance=4.22 ly This dim red dwarf is the nearest star to the Sun, and it is a member of theДЄlpha Centauri system despite lying 0.24 light years from the main Information on the Nearest Stars Sun - Type= G2, Magnitude=-26.8, Distance=0.0000158 ly A typical yellow dwarf star. Quadruple star systems, to demonstrate how stars orbit each other. This is a page showing some simple animations of double, triple and

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