Star
Barnard's Star
Barnard's Star is a star 5.95 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 6 years ago.
It crosses the sky faster than any other star, 10.3 arcseconds a year. Four small planets were found around it in 2024 and 2025.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 5.95 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 9.54
- Spectral type
- sdM4
- Catalogue
- HIP 87937
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.