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A yellow-colored class G8 subdwarf in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as Groombridge 1830 after British astronomer Stephen Groombridge, who first catalogued it. Its high proper motion was noted by German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander in 1842. The star is 29.9 light-years (9.2 parsecs) from the Sun.

It was once thought to be a binary star with a period of 175 days, but previous suspected observations of that kind were probably superflares. Current consensus is that it is... Read more...

A yellow-colored class G8 subdwarf in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as Groombridge 1830 after British astronomer Stephen Groombridge, who first catalogued it. Its high proper motion was noted by German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander in 1842. The star is 29.9 light-years (9.2 parsecs) from the Sun.

It was once thought to be a binary star with a period of 175 days, but previous suspected observations of that kind were probably superflares. Current consensus is that it is single.

A very-low-mass red dwarf about 6 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the fourth-nearest known individual star to the Sun... Read more...

A very-low-mass red dwarf about 6 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the fourth-nearest known individual star to the Sun and the closest star in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. Named after American astronomer E. E. Barnard, who was not the first to observe the star but who in 1916 measured its proper motion (the apparent angular motion of a star across the sky with respect to more distant stars) as 10.3 arcseconds per year relative to the Sun, the highest known for any star.

The star 55 Cancri A, named in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, is a binary star approximately 41 light-years from the Sun in the... Read more...

The star 55 Cancri A, named in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, is a binary star approximately 41 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Cancer. The system consists of Copernicus, a G-type star and a smaller red dwarf (55 Cancri B).

The star Mu Arae (μ Arae, abbreviated Mu Ara, μ Ara), designated HD 160691, is a main sequence G-type star approximately 50 light-years from the... Read more...

The star Mu Arae (μ Arae, abbreviated Mu Ara, μ Ara), designated HD 160691, is a main sequence G-type star approximately 50 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Ara. Named in honor of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, it has four planets, Mu Arae b, c, d, and e, which have been named for the main characters of Cervantes' famous novel: Quijote (b), Dulcinea (c), Rocinante (d) and Sancho (e).