Barnard's Star
red dwarf · fastest-moving star in our sky
6.0 light-years from Earth
An ancient red dwarf racing across the sky, the second-closest star system to the Sun. Four small planets were found around it in 2024-25.
- 5.96 light-years · about 10 billion years old
- kind
- star
- size
- 260,000 km across
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