red dwarf SO025300.5+165258 - closest star system after Alpha Centauri and Barnard's star
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2776229.stm
Third closest star system discovered
See http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302206 for a formal abstract of the original paper. They'll be publishing another paper soon describing 400 other previously uncatalogued stars with high proper motion!
Selden
Some of the parameters reported in the paper at
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302206.pdf
RA: 42.24369 deg
Dec: 16.89200 deg
Absolute Vis mag: 18.5 (+/- 0.7)
Spectral type: M 6.5 V
Distance: 2.3 (+1/-0.5) parsecs
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302206.pdf
RA: 42.24369 deg
Dec: 16.89200 deg
Absolute Vis mag: 18.5 (+/- 0.7)
Spectral type: M 6.5 V
Distance: 2.3 (+1/-0.5) parsecs
Selden
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