Barnard's Star
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Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. At a distance of 5.96 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three comp
Image of Barnard's Star and its surroundings, c. 2006 (south is up)
Size comparison between Jupiter, Barnard's Star, and the Sun
Artist's conception of a planet in orbit around a red dwarf
Artist's impression of the surface of a super-Earth orbiting Barnard's Star
Ophiuchus
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Ophiuchus is a large constellation straddling the celestial equator. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek ὀφιοῦχος, meaning "serpent-bearer", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping a snake.
Barnard's Star
…Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. At a distance of 5.96 light-years (1.83 pc) from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the…
Rho Ophiuchi, shown with a surrounding bluish cloud slightly above a pentagon of stars in Scorpius, with the main band of the Milky Way much further to the left
The constellation Ophiuchus as it can be seen by naked eye.
Illustration of Serpens, Ophiuchus and Scorpius in the Leiden Aratea manuscript, around 830 - 840.
Johannes Kepler's 1606 book De Stella Nova in Pede Serpentarii (On the New Star in Ophiuchus's Foot) opened at the page for Ophiuchus.