WISE 0855−0714 (full designation WISE J085510.83−071442.5, or W0855 for short) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y4, located 7.4 light-years (2.3 parsecs) from the Sun in the constellation Hydra. It is the fourth-closest stellar or substellar system to the Sun and was discovered by Kevin Luhman in 2013 using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
WISE 0855−0714 (full designation WISE J085510.83−071442.5, or W0855 for short) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y4, located 7.4 light-years (2.3 parsecs) from the Sun in the constellation Hydra. It is the fourth-closest stellar or substellar system to the Sun and was discovered by Kevin Luhman in 2013 using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
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