Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.

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We've got new neighbors, a system of two brown dwarfs, only 6.5 ly from Earth. Only the Alpha Centauri system and Barnard's Star are known to be closer.

http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2...hman3-2013

11 March 2013 — A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun, according to a paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916. The discovery was made by Kevin Luhman, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and a researcher in Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.