Barnard’s Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. At a distance of 5.96 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and is the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld. / SPACETV

Related channels: STARS, THE SUN, GLOBULAR CLUSTERS, NOVA, WHITE DWARFS, BROWN DWARFS, PULSARS, QUASARS, NEUTRON STARS, BLACK HOLES, ALPHA CENTAURI


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