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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A red dwarf star in the constellation Ophiuchus that, at a distance of 5.96 light years, is the fifth nearest star to Earth after the sun and the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. Barnard's star has the largest proper motion yet observed for a star, 10.3 arcseconds per year.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edward Emerson Barnard, (1857–1923), American astronomer who discovered it.]
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