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Explore Barnard's Star in COSMOS

A nearby Gaia source cross-identified by SIMBAD as Barnard's Star. Its rendered depth is the reciprocal of high-S/N DR3 parallax and its position is propagated linearly from J2016.0. Its position in the explorer is a measured Gaia DR3 point, not an illustration, and the distance comes from its parallax.

Measured facts

Measured parallax
546.9759 mas (± 0.0401)
Derived distance
1.828 pc · 5.963 ly
Gaia G magnitude
8.194
Radial velocity
-110.468 km/s

What opens when you follow this link

COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Barnard's Star. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.

If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.

Where the full record lives

This page is the share link. The complete data record for Barnard's Star — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.

Datasets behind this page

Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.