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
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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.