Free Astronomy Magazine January-February 2019

4 PLANETOLOGY Barnard’s Star, which for over a century has held the record of the star with the fastest appar- ent motion in our night sky, houses a cold super-Earth that could soon be photographed di- rectly. This planet is the second closest among the known extra- solar ones and one day it will perhaps become a destination for the first interstellar probes. Barnard’s Star b, the nearest super-Earth by Michele Ferrara revised by Damian G. Allis NASA Solar System Ambassador JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019