This is a binary system less than twenty light years from the Sun, consisting of two reddwarfstars. Each of these is small and faint, but the B component (individually known as Van Biesbroeck's Star) is one of the smallest and faintest stars known, with less than a tenth of the of the mass of the Sun. The primarystarV1428 Aquilae A is known to have at least one planet, a small gas giant following a close orbit around its cool red parent star.
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