Gliese 682

Gliese 682

system

Gliese 682 is a red dwarf 16.3 light-years away in Scorpius, one of the nearest stars to the Sun. Two super-Earths circle it, reported in 2014 from the star's radial-velocity wobble; both masses are minimums.

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Key facts

Type
Red dwarf + 2 planets
Distance
16.3 light-years
Confirmed planets
2

Science

Classification

Type
Single red-dwarf system
Central star
Gliese 682 — M3.5V red dwarf (~3028 K, 0.27 M☉)

Planets

Confirmed planets
2 · b and c, super-Earth / mini-Neptune
Masses
Radial-velocity minimums (m·sin i)

Distance

Distance
16.3 light-years · one of the closest stars

How we know

Note
Two confirmed planets (NASA Exoplanet Archive, checked 2026-07-07), found by radial velocity — minimum masses, no measured sizes. Map distance is symbolic; the real gap is 16.3 light-years.

Discovery & history

Name
A catalogue designation (Gliese 682); no proper name.

Two candidate planets were reported in 2014 from HARPS monitoring of nearby red dwarfs.

Images

Where to find it — in Scorpius, the Scorpion (IAU constellation chart). To the eye it is a single point of light; no telescope has imaged its surface.
IAU / Sky & Telescope, R. Sinnott & R. Fienberg (CC BY 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

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