Exoplanet news gets me through the dark times, and I'm still chuffed at how busy Barnard's Star is, and it's not implausible for a probe from here to go there some day, and gasp, maybe even people?

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-four-little-planets-one-big-step/

#BarnardsStar #Exoplanets #Space

Confirmed at last: exoplanets found around nearest single star
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!

#astronomy #BarnardsStar #exoplanets

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/confirmed-exoplanets-nearest-single-star/

*Updates Barnards Star in personal worldbuilding Galactic Map

Just 6 light years away as well.....

https://www.earth.com/news/four-small-planets-discovered-orbiting-the-nearest-single-star-to-earth-barnards-star/

#BarnardsStar #Exoplanets #Astronomy

"Wolf 359, Bar-nards Star, ..."

Loved this track when I was young, the thrill I got to hear the names of Astronomical bodies woven into a little song, coming off the back of playing A LOT of Frontier Elite II which used many nearby stars as locations.
That's when my love of drifting through star maps began.

The thrill of having these somewhat fictional locations fleshed out by Discovery, that is the magic that draws some of us out into Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTd5j6S337s

#BarnardsStar #Blur

Max Wolf (of Wolf 359 fame) and E.E. Barnard (of Barnard's Star fame) were "lifelong correspondents, competitors, collaborators and friends. Wolf wrote a long obituary for Barnard upon his death in 1923."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Wolf

#Wolf359 #BarnardsStar #Space

Beat Atlas Records [https://thebigcity.co.nz/resources/record-labels/beat-atlas-records]
Tiny late Christchurch-based label formed by Mike Richardson and headline act Barnard's Star, who released 2 lathe cut 7" singles and a CD EP of terrific electronic-infused shoegaze on the label. The other notable act is Hawaii Five-0, an excellent organ-driven indie-pop group that served as the debut of Annabel Alpers, who later found fame as Bachelorette.

#nzmusic #barnardsstar #hawaiifive0

Barnard’s Star [https://thebigcity.co.nz/artists/b/barnards-star-aug-2006]
Excellent Christchurch shoegaze / electronic group with a unique, spacey sound. Released an EP and 2 7" lathe cut singles on the Beat Atlas imprint in the late 1990's before going their seperate ways.

#nzmusic #barnardsstar