ROSS 128, sometimes called FI VIR - Currently in 11th place
This is a M4.0 dwarf star at a distance of 10.9 light years.
Due to this stars proximity to us it has been selected as a target star for NASA's optical Space Interferometry Mission that aims to detect a planet as small as three Earth-masses within two AUs of its host star.
This page was last updated on May 17th 2010.