Lacaille 8760 (AX Microscopii) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Microscopium. It is one of the nearest stars to the Sun at about 12.9 light-years'...
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variables include Barnard's Star, Kapteyn's Star, 61 Cygni, Ross 248, Lacaille 8760, Lalande 21185, Epsilon Eridani and Luyten 726-8. Ross 248 is the first...
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near visual magnitude. The brightest red dwarf in Earth's night sky, Lacaille 8760 (+6.7) is visible to the naked eye only under ideal viewing conditions...
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4970±0.0045 ly) 2 planets: b, c Kapteyn's Star (12.8308±0.0008 ly) Lacaille 8760 (12.9472±0.0018 ly) SCR 1845−6357 (13.0638±0.0070 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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Even the largest red dwarfs (for example HD 179930, HIP 12961 and Lacaille 8760) have only about 10% of the Sun's luminosity. In general, red dwarfs...
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281 8.84 10.87 254.1986 ±0.0168 two refuted planets (b and c) (2014) Lacaille 8760 (AX Microscopii) 12.9472 ±0.0018 Mic* 21h 17m 15.3s −38° 52′ 03″ M0...
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4970±0.0045 ly) 2 planets: b, c Kapteyn's Star (12.8308±0.0008 ly) Lacaille 8760 (12.9472±0.0018 ly) SCR 1845−6357 (13.0638±0.0070 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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4970±0.0045 ly) 2 planets: b, c Kapteyn's Star (12.8308±0.0008 ly) Lacaille 8760 (12.9472±0.0018 ly) SCR 1845−6357 (13.0638±0.0070 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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4970±0.0045 ly) 2 planets: b, c Kapteyn's Star (12.8308±0.0008 ly) Lacaille 8760 (12.9472±0.0018 ly) SCR 1845−6357 (13.0638±0.0070 ly) T-type brown dwarf B...
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temperatures; from 0.3 AU (just inside the orbit of Mercury) for a star like Lacaille 8760, to as little as 0.032 AU for a star like Proxima Centauri (such a world...
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