LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOOD / NASA MISSION INTELLIGENCE
Measure the stars nearest home.
Navigate a heliocentric 3D teaching map, inspect nearby confirmed planet hosts, and follow recently updated Kepler, K2, and TESS discoveries without exposing each visit to a cross-origin science API.
- Spatial scope
- 0–25 parsecs
- Planet authority
- NASA Exoplanet Archive
- Neighbourhood context
- Gaia GCNS · CNS5
- Runtime data path
- Same-origin JSON snapshot
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ACCESSIBLE HTML FALLBACK
Nearest systems and confirmed planet hosts
This table remains usable without React, WebGL, or a cross-origin data connection. Distances are rounded teaching values. Use the linked source catalogues for precision research and uncertainty analysis.
| System | Distance | Class | Research context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxima Centauri | 4.24 ly | M5.5 V | Nearest stellar neighbour; confirmed planet host in the NASA Exoplanet Archive. |
| Alpha Centauri A/B | 4.39 ly | G2 V / K1 V | Nearest Sun-like stellar pair; part of the triple system with Proxima. |
| Barnard’s Star | 5.96 ly | M3.5–4 V | High-proper-motion red dwarf with confirmed planet rows. |
| Wolf 359 | 7.86 ly | M6 V | Low-mass flare star in the local 10 pc sample. |
| Lalande 21185 | 8.31 ly | M2 V | High-proper-motion red dwarf in Ursa Major. |
| Sirius A/B | 8.60 ly | A1 V / DA2 | Main-sequence star and white-dwarf binary. |
| Epsilon Eridani | 10.45 ly | K-type | Nearby confirmed giant-planet host. |
| Ross 128 | 11.01 ly | M4 | Nearby confirmed rocky-planet host. |
SCIENTIFIC BOUNDARY
A teaching instrument, not a navigation solution.
The visualisation turns catalogue coordinates into a legible local frame and exposes selection effects, provenance, and missing values. It does not propagate full astrometric covariance, binary orbits, radial motion, light-time, relativistic frames, or spacecraft trajectory constraints. For assessed research, query the cited archives and carry their uncertainties and selection functions through the analysis.