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Do We Now Have an Accurate Map of Nearby Stars?


If the Sun has a stellar neighbourhood, it can be usefully defined as a 20 parsec (65 light-years) sphere centred on our star. Astronomers have been actively cataloguing the stellar population in the neighbourhood for decades, but it hasn't been easy since many stars are small and dim.

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