Alluded to elsewhere, but it's very close. After Alpha Centauri and Barnard's Star — and a couple of brown dwarfs, if you want to count those — it's next at ar

Alluded to elsewhere, but it's very close. After Alpha Centauri and Barnard's Star — and a couple of brown dwarfs, if you want to count those — it's next at around eight light years away. It's ended up in a lot of fiction[1], in particular Star Trek, but also a number of novels and video games (I know it from Escape Velocity: Nova). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in_fiction#Wolf_359_(CN_Leonis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in...