Wolf 359 (CN LEO) - Currently in 3rd place
CN LEO is the 3rd closest system to Sol. The system consists of a red dwarf of spectral class M6.0 with an estimated mass of only 9% that of the Sun.
Note how much brighter the M6.0 dwarf is in the IR rather than V band and how well this is shown in this 120 second animated exposure of IR and V band images.
This page was last updated on May 17th 2010.