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Barnard's Star is a red dwarf and our closest single star to Earth, other than the stars of the Alpha Centauri system. Due to its proximity, it is a first option for study by astronomers since ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest star overall, after the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

Barnard’s star, located in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star. Its mass is about 16 per cent of the sun’s and it is far less hot.

Astronomers have long suspected that at least one exoplanet orbits Barnard's Star, a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of our Sun. Located 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

All four planets are so close to Barnard’s star, which has about one-seventh the mass of the sun, that they orbit it in less than a week. That means they’re too hot to be habitable, Basant says.

Still, Barnard’s Star is so close that it may be possible to take their pictures in a difficult process called “direct imaging,” which involves blotting out most of a star’s light so that ...