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Barnard's Star system

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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 the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere.
Its stellar mass is about 14% of the Sun's, and it has 20% of the Sun's diameter. Despite its proximity, the star has a dim apparent visual magnitude of +9.5 and is invisible to the naked eye.
It might have a planet of about 3.23 Earth masses, it was discovered in 2018 but after more recent studies, it might actually not exist.