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List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs
This list contains all known stars and
brown dwarfs
at a distance of up to 5
parsecs
(16.3
light-years
) from the
Solar System
. In addition to the Solar System, there are another 54
stellar systems
currently known lying within this distance. These systems contain a total of 56 hydrogen-fusing
stars
(of which 46 are
red dwarfs
), 14
brown dwarfs
, and 4
white dwarfs
. Despite the relative proximity of these objects to Earth, only nine of them have an
apparent magnitude
less than 6.5, which means only about 12% of these objects can be observed with the
naked eye
. Besides the Sun, only three are
first-magnitude stars
:
Alpha Centauri
,
Sirius
, and
Procyon
. All of these objects are located in the
Local Bubble
, a region within the
Orion–Cygnus Arm
of the
Milky Way
.
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