Bar|nard's Star

Bar|nard's Star
Bar|nard's Star «BAHR nuhrdz»,
a star of the tenth magnitude that has the largest known proper motion and is the second closest star to the sun after Alpha Centauri. It is in the constellation Ophiuchus.
[< E. E. Barnard, 1857-1923, an American astronomer, who discovered the star in 1916]

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