Wolf 359

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|} Wolf 359 is a star located approximately 2.4 parsecs or 7.80 light years from Earth's solar system. It is one of the nearest stars to the Sun; only the Alpha Centauri system and Barnard's star are known to be closer. Its celestial position is in the constellation Leo, near the ecliptic. It is an extremely faint red dwarf, too dim to be visible to the naked eye, and it is a flare star.

The star was discovered using astrophotography by German astronomer Max Wolf in 1918. Its closest neighbor is Ross 128, 1.16 pc or 3.79 ly away.

Wolf 359 was also a series of Babylon 5 and Star Trek fan conventions that ran in England between 1995 to 2003.

In fiction

• Wolf 359 is also the name of an episode of The Outer Limits television show, originally broadcast 7 November 1964.
• Wolf 359 is an industrial and mining colony in the computer game Frontier: Elite 2.
• In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Battle of Wolf 359 is a pivotal confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Borg in 2367.
• Wolf 359 is mentioned in the British version of Invaders from Mars (1953).
• Wolf 359 is repeatedly mentioned as a candidate for terraforming in There Will Be Dragons.

See also

• List of nearest stars

External links

• [SolStation.com: Wolf 359]
• [The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight]

 

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