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Gliese 667

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Also known as HJ 4935, Gliese 667 AB, 142 G. Scorpii

triple star system

Key facts

Constellation
Scorpius
Right ascension
17 18 57.16483
Declination
−34 ° 59 ′ 23.1416 ″
Apparent magnitude v
5.91/7.20
Spectral type
K3V + K5V
Evolutionary stage
main sequence

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
star
Has part
Gliese 667 C
Constellation
Scorpius
Distance from Earth
23.2
Radius
0.76
Mass
0.73
Variable-star type
flare star
Image
Scorpius constellation map.svg
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right ascension component of proper motion
1168
luminosity
0.13
Commons category
Gliese 667
spectral class
K4- V
catalog code
WEB 14302
topic has template
Template:Gliese 667
topic's main category
Category:Gliese 667
apparent magnitude
3.12
parallax
143.45
right ascension
259.738186800
declination
-34.989761545
effective temperature
4646
radial velocity
-4.0
epoch
J2000.0
metallicity
-0.43
surface gravity
46000
color index
1.031
absolute magnitude
7.078
declination component of proper motion
-170
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Encyclopedic overview

Gliese 667 (142 G. Scorpii) is a triple-star system in the constellation Scorpius lying at a distance of about 7.2 parsecs (23 light-years) from Earth. All three of the stars have masses smaller than the Sun. To the naked eye, the system appears to be a single faint star of magnitude 5.89. The system has a relatively high proper motion, exceeding 1 second of arc per year.

There is a 12th-magnitude star visually close to the other three, but it is a distant background star not gravitationally bound to the system.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gliese 667” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.