Sun Has Two Neighboring Stars Hidden Until Now

Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:46 am » by **Evildweeb**

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Sun Has Two Neighboring Stars Hidden Until Now

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Published on Mar 12, 2013

Our sun has a pair of neighbors we never knew about until now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Qtd8PGcBo

Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:49 am » by **Opalserpent**

Old mate says third closest during the video. So there are others. News anyway.

Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:26 am » by **Rizze**

11 March 2013 — 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.

Both stars in the new binary system are "brown dwarfs," which are stars that are too small in mass to ever become hot enough to ignite hydrogen fusion. As a result, they are very cool and dim, resembling a giant planet like Jupiter more than a bright star like the Sun.
Image of WISE J104915.57-531906, taken by the WISE satellite.

WISE J104915.57-531906 is at the center of the larger image, which was taken by the WISE satellite. It appeared to be a single object, but a sharper image from Gemini Observatory revealed that it was binary star system. Credit: NASA/JPL/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF

"The distance to this brown dwarf pair is 6.5 light years -- so close that Earth's television transmissions from 2006 are now arriving there," Luhman said. "It will be an excellent hunting ground for planets because it is

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The Closest Star System Found in a Century

Great stuff Dweeb :flop:

Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:03 am » by **Master Otomon**

The Sun has plenty of neighbour stars, its called "The Universe" -_-

Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:59 am » by **-Marduk-**

^STAAARSSCRRREEAAAM