Gliese 682, also known as GJ 682, is a nearby star. It is listed as the 53rd-nearest known star system to the Sun,[9] being 16.3 light years distant. Even though it is close by, as a red dwarf, it is dim with a magnitude of 10.95 and thus requires a telescope to be seen. It is located in the constellation of Scorpius, near the bright star Theta Scorpii.[5]
The star is in a crowded region of sky near the Galactic Center, and so appears to be near a number of deep-sky objects from the Solar System's perspective. The star is only 0.5 degrees from the much more distant globular cluster NGC 6388.
Planetary system
Evidence for a giant planet was presented in 2026. Its semi-major axis is very uncertain, somewhere between 0.4 and 70 au, and the mass is somewhere between 0.2 and 10 MJ.[10]
Two planets were detected orbiting Gliese 682 in 2014, one of which would be in the habitable zone.[11][12] A 2020 study did not find these planets and concluded that the radial velocity signals were probably caused by stellar activity.[13]
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↑ 4.04.14.2Martínez-Rodríguez, Héctor; Caballero, José Antonio; Cifuentes, Carlos; Piro, Anthony L.; Barnes, Rory (2019). "Exomoons in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal887 (2): 261. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab5640. Bibcode: 2019ApJ...887..261M.
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↑Hojjatpanah, S.; Figueira, P.; Santos, N. C.; Adibekyan, V.; Sousa, S. G.; Delgado-Mena, E.; Alibert, Y.; Cristiani, S. et al. (2019). "Catalog for the ESPRESSO blind radial velocity exoplanet survey". Astronomy and Astrophysics629: A80. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834729. Bibcode: 2019A&A...629A..80H.
↑Feng, Fabo; Butler, R. Paul; Shectman, Stephen A.; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Vogt, Steve; Chambers, John; Jones, Hugh R. A.; Wang, Sharon Xuesong et al. (8 January 2020). "Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. II. Detection of Five New Planets, Eight Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of Three Planets around Nine Nearby M Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series246 (1): 11. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab5e7c. Bibcode: 2020ApJS..246...11F.