I must have been very busy or something but I completely missed the announcements in the last couple of years about 2 newly discovered very nearby stars.
Luhman 16 is a binary system of brown dwarfs only 6.6 light years away. These are the nearest brown dwarfs to us. It is the third closest system, only Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s star being closer. Its discovery was announced in 2013.

WISE 0855−0714 was discovered 2014. At 7.5 light years, it is the fourth closest system. It appears to be a singleton.

Both were discovered thanks to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

The nearest star to us is only “light minutes” away..

bob(from black rock) said:

The nearest star to us is only “light minutes” away..

Fair call.

i think when “us” is used it means our solar system.

ChrispenEvan said:

i think when “us” is used it means our solar system.

That’s a fair point.

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i think when “us” is used it means our solar system.

That’s a fair point.

It’s “A joke Joyce”

bob(from black rock) said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i think when “us” is used it means our solar system.

That’s a fair point.

It’s “A joke Joyce”

Thanks Barnaby. ;)

i like to elucidate just in case some don’t know the, maybe, proper reason.

ChrispenEvan said:

i like to elucidate just in case some don’t know the, maybe, proper reason.

:)

This has been noted.

you’re doing it again roughie. add something constructive or don’t respond.

ChrispenEvan said:

you’re doing it again roughie. add something constructive or don’t respond.

I’d like to say the same to you.

But if I did that, then someone would have to say the same to me, and we’d get stuck in an infinite loop.

So I won’t say anything.

The Rev Dodgson said:

ChrispenEvan said:

you’re doing it again roughie. add something constructive or don’t respond.

I’d like to say the same to you.

But if I did that, then someone would have to say the same to me, and we’d get stuck in an infinite loop.

So I won’t say anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08

dv said:

I must have been very busy or something but I completely missed the announcements in the last couple of years about 2 newly discovered very nearby stars.
Luhman 16 is a binary system of brown dwarfs only 6.6 light years away. These are the nearest brown dwarfs to us. It is the third closest system, only Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s star being closer. Its discovery was announced in 2013.

WISE 0855−0714 was discovered 2014. At 7.5 light years, it is the fourth closest system. It appears to be a singleton.

Both were discovered thanks to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

ROFL. That’s a direct reference to what I posted on the Facebook Dr Karl’s SSSF website ten hours ago. Thank’s DV for adding it here. What I posted there was:

Almost missed this one, never saw it in the news. If you were to list the nearest star systems to us you might list them as: solar system, alpha centauri and proxima, barnard’s star, wolf 359, lalande 21185, sirius. Epsilon eridani with the nearest confirmed planet is significantly further away.

That list is missing some spectacular recent discoveries. Luhman 16 was discovered in the year 2013 and the discovery of Wise 0855-0714 was announced on 21 Apr 2014. Amazingly, both are closer to us than wolf 359 and both were discovered by Kevin Luhman.
Luhman 16 is a binary containing two brown dwarfs and has one suspected planet. Wise 0855-0714 is much fainter, with a surface temperature somewhere between 400 and 600 K, which makes it faint enough to be a jupiter-like planet. If spacecraft ever leave the solar system, Luhman 16 and Wise 0855-0714 would both be well worth visiting.

dv said:

I must have been very busy or something but I completely missed the announcements in the last couple of years about 2 newly discovered very nearby stars.
Luhman 16 is a binary system of brown dwarfs only 6.6 light years away. These are the nearest brown dwarfs to us. It is the third closest system, only Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s star being closer. Its discovery was announced in 2013.

WISE 0855−0714 was discovered 2014. At 7.5 light years, it is the fourth closest system. It appears to be a singleton.

Both were discovered thanks to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

ROFL. That’s a direct reference to what I posted on the Facebook Dr Karl’s SSSF website ten hours ago. Thank’s DV for adding it here. What I posted there was:

Almost missed this one, never saw it in the news. If you were to list the nearest star systems to us you might list them as: solar system, alpha centauri and proxima, barnard’s star, wolf 359, lalande 21185, sirius. Epsilon eridani with the nearest confirmed planet is significantly further away.

That list is missing some spectacular recent discoveries. Luhman 16 was discovered in the year 2013 and the discovery of Wise 0855-0714 was announced on 21 Apr 2014. Amazingly, both are closer to us than wolf 359 and both were discovered by Kevin Luhman.
Luhman 16 is a binary containing two brown dwarfs and has one suspected planet. Wise 0855-0714 is much fainter, with a surface temperature somewhere between 400 and 600 K, which makes it faint enough to be a jupiter-like planet. If spacecraft ever leave the solar system, Luhman 16 and Wise 0855-0714 would both be well worth visiting.

Look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brown_dwarfs for more info on nearest stars and brown dwarfs.

was a pun

>>It appears to be a singleton.

Not as pleasant as the pokolbin a couple of arc seconds to the left.

they’ll find nemesis one day

wookiemeister said:

they’ll find nemesis one day

No, they’ll find that the Earth has rings like Saturn.