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Temperature: 3277 K | 0.57 T Sun
Age: 8.5 billions years | 1.85 Sun
Luminosity: 0.003 L Sun
Apparent magnitude (V): 9.872Luytens Star c |
1.2 M⊕ | 0.04 AU | 4.7 days | |
Luytens Star b |
2.2 M⊕ | 0.09 AU | 18.7 days | |
Luytens Star d |
10.8 M⊕ | 0.71 AU | 413.9 days | |
Luytens Star e |
9.3 M⊕ | 0.85 AU | 542 days |
Sol
12.3 ly
Nearby star Luytens Star can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia. Luytens Star is about 40 % of the size of Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 3277 K (3004 °C), which is about 57 % of Suns temperature.
Red dwarfs are small reddish stars, that are by far the most common type of star in solar neighborhood. Their mass is usually between 10 and 50 % of solar mass.
| Distance (Light Years) |
Star name | Mass (Solar mass) |
Planets | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 |
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Procyon | 1.5 M☉ 0.6 M☉ |
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| 2.6 |
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WISE J0722-0540 | 0.02 M☉ | ||||||
| 3.8 |
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Ross 614 | 0.22 M☉ 0.11 M☉ |
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| 5.5 |
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DX Cancri | 0.09 M☉ | ||||||
| 5.7 |
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Sirius | 2.06 M☉ 1.02 M☉ |
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Simbad database (BD+05 1668 )