Astronomy / Space The closest star system found in a century

Bounder

Bounder
From PhysOrg:

(Phys.org) —A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun, according to a paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916. The discovery was made by Kevin Luhman, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and a researcher in Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.
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Pair of brown dwarfs, at 6.5 ly. Surprising tho that we're still finding such large objects so close... The JWT will be up in a few years, so we might find closer ones yet...
 

Magma

Magma
I hope they don't update the map on the fly. It would be embarrassing to hyperdrive through a star that wasn't there when you set off.
 
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