Luyten’s Star

Star type
g M3.5-5 Ve

Distance from Earth
g 12.36 ly

Star Service No.
g NA

Age
g NA

Diameter/Mass/Temp (xSol)
g 11%; 25.7%; NA

Brightness (xSol)
g 0.145%

Metallicity
g NA

Comparison to Sol
g NA

Picture of star
g See picture

Star system features
g NA

Known planets
g Infrared speckle interferometric searches for companions with a mass between 50 an 80 Jupiter-masses at 1-10 AUs and 100-1,000 AUs of Luyten's Star also have not been able to confirm the existence of such an object

Habitable zone
g Distance from the star where an Earth-type planet would be "comfortable" with liquid water is centered around 0.15 AUs, where its orbital period would be competed in less than 42 days. At such a close in orbit, however, the rotation of the planet may become tidally locked

Orbital map
g NA

View from star
g See sky map

Nearby stars
(Star systems with 10 light years)
g Procyon: 1.11 ly (unusually close)
g Ross 614 AB: 3.9 ly
g DX Cancri: 5.5 ly
g LTT 12352: 5.6 ly
g Sirius 2: 5.8 ly
g Ross 882 AB: 7.1 ly
g LTT 17897: 7.7 ly
g LTT 17993: 7.7 ly
g GJ 1116 AB: 8 ly
g Wolf 294: 9.4 ly
g Ross 47: 9.6 ly
g Wolf 359: 9.8 ly

Map locating star system
g See map

Location in Earth sky
g Northern part of Constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, near Constellation Canis Minor (the Smaller Dog), east of the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246) and southwest of Gomeisa (Beta Canis Minoris) and west of Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris)

Other names
g Gl 273
g Hip 36208
g Ross 878
g BD+05 1668
g G 89-19
g G 112-17
g LHS 33
g LTT 12021
g LFT 527
g L 5-1668
g V 17

Sci-fi mentions
g NA

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