Barnard's Star

English

Etymology

Named for American astronomer E. E. Barnard, who measured its proper motion in 1916.

Proper noun

Barnard's Star

  1. A very low-mass red dwarf star about six light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
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