Non smoking gun
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The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era
A COSMIC census of the currently known objects in the vicinity of our sun has revealed that there are 540 stars and planets in the immediate neighborhood.
Using existing databases of objects alongside data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope, which is mapping billions of stars in our galaxy, Céline Reylé at the UTINAM Institute in France and her colleagues pooled all knowledge
of objects within 10 parsecs, or 33 light years, of our sun.
A COSMIC census of the currently known objects in the vicinity of our sun has revealed that there are 540 stars and planets in the immediate neighborhood.
Using existing databases of objects alongside data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope, which is mapping billions of stars in our galaxy, Céline Reylé at the UTINAM Institute in France and her colleagues pooled all knowledge
of objects within 10 parsecs, or 33 light years, of our sun.
That number is made up of 375 stars, 88 brown dwarfs and 77 exoplanets.
Of the stars in the census, 249 are small red dwarfs like Proxima Centauri, our closest neighbour at 4.2 light years away. The stellar count also includes 21 white dwarfs (dense remnants of dead stars), 18 G-type stars like our sun and
two systems with five stars each