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Lalande 21185 is a red dwarf star approximately 2.5 pc or 8.21 light years from Earth's Solar System, and is the fourth closest known star to the Sun.

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Lalande 21185, a dim red dwarf, may have as many as three Jupiter-class
planets -- including innermost planetary candidate "b" depicted with rings
and two moons, as imagined by Whatmough -- larger image ...

Lalande 21185 was a star located about 8.3 light years from Sol.
On several occasions in 2364, viewscreen readouts aboard the USS Enterprise-D showed the location of Lalande 21185, in the form of charts from the Enterprise-D library computer.

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early colonized Genetekker outpost, resource rich system, became important Genetek centre during the Federation period, during the Empires era, fearing subversion, became a nominal member of the Sophic League; ...

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Lambda Bootis star
Lambda Eridani star
Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)
Large Southern Array (LSA)
large-scale structure
Larissa
late heavy bombardment ...

Groombridge 1830 and Lalande 21185, both of which require a finder's chart, and 47 Ursae Majoris, which has recently been found to have a planet which could theoretically support water.

Planets around the star Lalande 21185 from Science News magazine.
Encyclopedia Extrasolar lists other extrasolar planetary candidates
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The stars next closest to the Sun are the red dwarfs Barnard's Star (at 6 light years), Wolf 359 (7.8 light years) and Lalande 21185 (8.3 light years).

Astrometric observations suggest the possibility that Lalande 21185 is orbited by two Jupiter-like planets.

Barnard's Star - 5.96 LY [YH]
HPMS - 7.50 LY
Wolf 359 - 7.78 LY [Y]
Lalande 21185 - 8.29 LY [YH]
Sirius Star System ...

of just over four light-years, the three members of Alpha Centauri, including Proxima Centauri, are the nearest stars to Earth. The next three closest stars are red dwarfs: Barnard's Star is six light-years from Earth. Wolf 359 and Lalande 21185 are ...

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