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Luhman 16 (WISE 1049-5319 WISE J104915.57–531906.1) is a binary brown-dwarf system in the southern constellation Vela at a distance of approximately 6.6 light-years from the Sun. They are the closest known brown dwarfs and the closest system found since the measurement of the proper motion of Barnard’s Star in 1916. The primary is of spectral type L8±1 and the secondary of type T1±2 (and is hence near the L–T transition).
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