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.
Lalande 21185
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
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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3 Lalande 21185 7.5 M2 V 2.5 Sirius -1.5 A1 V 2.6 Luyten 726-8 12.5 M6e V 2.7 Ross 154 10.6 M5e V 2.9 Ross 248 12.2 M6e V 3.2 Epsilon Eridani 3.7 K2 V 3.3 Luyten 789-6 12.2 M6 V 3.3 Ross 128 11.1 M5 V 3.3 61 Cygni 5.2 K5 V 3.4 Epsilon Indi 4.7 K5 V 3.
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 ...
Alpha Ursae Majoris (possibly Alpha Majoris)
Merak (Beta Ursae Majoris)
Mizar (Zeta Ursae Majoris)
61 Ursae Majoris (Archer system)
Lalande 21185
Ursa Minor (Ursae Minoris) ...
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 ...
The bottom declination (see More Precisely 1-2) of the star Lalande 21185, corrected for the motion of Lalande through the Milky Way Galaxy and the motion of Earth around the Sun over the last half century.
red dwarf Alpha Centauri C (also known as Proxima Centauri) orbits the pair at a distance of 0.2 light years. The stars next closest to the Sun are the red dwarfs Barnard's Star (at 5.9 light years), Wolf 359 (7.8 light years) and Lalande 21185 (8.
faint to be seen with the unaided eye and in the same constellation as the Big Dipper, this star (like Barnard's Star) is suspected to have at least one companion planet. (In some tables of nearby stars, this star is referred to as "Lalande 21185.'') ...
 See also: Star, Earth, Solar, Distance, Planet
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