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    Luhman 16 (also designated WISE 1049−5319 or WISE J104915.57−531906.1) is a binary brown-dwarf system in the southern constellation Vela at a distance...
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  • Luhman is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics from Pennsylvania State University who discovered both the third-closest stellar system, Luhman 16...
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    are located in the Luhman 16 system, a binary of L- and T-type brown dwarfs about 6.5 light-years (2.0 parsecs) from the Sun. Luhman 16 is the third closest...
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    system (including Proxima Centauri), Barnard's Star, and the brown dwarfs Luhman 16 (WISE 1049-5319) and WISE 0855−0714 known to be closer. Its proximity...
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  • 800..134M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/134. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 555496. Luhman, K. L.; Patten, B. M.; Marengo, M.; Schuster, M. T.; Hora, J. L.; Ellis...
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    Alpha Centauri system, Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, and the brown dwarfs Luhman 16 and WISE 0855−0714 are known to be closer. Because of its proximity it...
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    Earth trojan asteroid, 2010 TK7. Also, the third-closest star system, Luhman 16. As of May 2018, WISE / NEOWISE had also discovered 290 near-Earth objects...
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    to the Sun, the discovery of which was announced in April 2014 by Kevin Luhman using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). As of 2014[update]...
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    Earth, respectively. The discovery of a binary brown dwarf system named Luhman 16 only 6.6 light-years away, the third-closest system to the Solar System...
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    One Year Alias Explains Barnard b as a False Positive, arXiv:2105.07005 Luhman, K. L. (2013). "Discovery of a Binary Brown Dwarf at 2 Parsecs from the...
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  • L-type Luhman 16 (6.5029±0.0011 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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    of 5.936±0.016 mas. The projected rotational velocity is a relatively low 16 km/s, which does not produce any significant flattening of its disk. This...
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    Proxima Centauri's quiescent X-ray luminosity, approximately (4–16) × 1026 erg/s ((4–16) × 1019 W), is roughly equal to that of the much larger Sun. The...
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    Bubble, and its nearest known system is the binary brown dwarf system Luhman 16, at 3.6 light-years (1.1 parsecs) from Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri...
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    L-type Luhman 16 (6.5029±0.0011 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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    Redefined Solar System". NASA. Retrieved 4 November 2015. Beatty, Kelly (16 October 2010). "Our "New, Improved" Solar System". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved...
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    A (16 December 2016). "The top 15 events that happened in space in 2016". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December...
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    1007/BF02243313. S2CID 118819800. "The Green Flash". BBC. 16 December 2008. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2008. Coleman,...
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    L-type Luhman 16 (6.5029±0.0011 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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    L-type Luhman 16 (6.5029±0.0011 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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    System to Earth". European Southern Observatory. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012. Wall, Mike (16 October 2012). "Discovery! Earth-Size Alien Planet...
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    hdl:11336/82487. S2CID 256708667. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024. "The Planets". NASA. Retrieved 6 April 2024. "Kuiper...
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  • Dwarf". NASA. Retrieved 2024-01-16. "Webb identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2024-01-16. Hayden Planetarium, "Stellar...
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  • de Strasbourg. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-12-16. "Query= UV Cet". General Catalogue of Variable Stars. Centre de Données astronomiques...
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  • +12°52'24", slightly east of open star cluster NGC 2194 in Orion) Luhman — (for example: Luhman 16 in Vela) Luy — W.J. Luyten (double stars) Lv — Francis Preserved...
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    two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega. It is located at a distance of 16.7 light-years (5.1 parsecs) from the Sun.: 194  Altair is currently in the...
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    closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its stellar mass is about 16% of the Sun's, and it has 19% of the Sun's diameter. Despite its proximity...
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    HD 73526 74438 83443 (Kalausi) 85390 (Natasha) 85512 93385 Other DENIS J082303.1−491201 Gliese 367 (Añañuca) GJ 1132 Luhman 16 PSR J0855−4644 WASP-19...
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    stars and their relative position as a function of time Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine AAVSO Eclipsing Binaries section OGLE Atlas of Variable...
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    L-type Luhman 16 (6.5029±0.0011 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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