Star
Van Maanen's Star
Van Maanen's Star is a star 13.9 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 14 years ago.
The nearest lone white dwarf. A 1917 photograph of its spectrum holds the earliest known evidence of planetary matter outside the Solar System.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 13.9 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 12.37
- Spectral type
- DG
- Catalogue
- HIP 3829
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.