Starlight-Starbright wrote:
How far away is it? Barnard's star or further?
cheres!!!
S-
http://www.hobrad.com/astnotes.htm
"...(the nearest of the sunlike stars with planets, Epsilon Eridani, is 10.5
light-years from Earth), observation has been almost entirely indirect,
based on radial velocity (the gravitational wobble or motion of the parent
stars)." Gliese 876 at 15 ly appears to be the second closest.
Also see,
http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_search.cfm