Star
Wolf 359
Wolf 359 is a red star 7.80 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 8 years ago.
A red dwarf so faint it takes a large telescope, yet only Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and two brown dwarfs are nearer. Star Trek set a battle here.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 7.80 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 13.45
- Spectral type
- M6
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.