Stars between 4.3 and 8.2 l.y.
Number of stars: 3

BARNARD'S STAR 5.97 LIGHT YEARS

MASS
0.15

LUMINOSITY
0.00044

With an age of 1000 billion years, this red dwarf 'flare-type' star of spectral type M5 is considered very old.
Barnard's Star is the fastest moving stellar object known to us and is moving, relative to our Sun, at about 140 kilometres per second. It will make its closest approach to us at a distance of 3.85 light years in just under 10,000 years time.
Measurements of its path through space did create a lot of excitement among astronomers at the Sproul Observatory, Pennsylvannia, USA, since measurements began in the 1940s. According to Peter van de Kamp and his colleagues at the observatory, the data suggested the presence of two large planets in orbit. Further analysis using data from other, more modern observatories has placed de Kamp's observations of possible dark companions in doubt.

WOLF 359 7.7 LIGHT YEARS

MASS
0.2

LUMINOSITY
0.00002

A red dwarf 'flare-type' star (spectral type M8) about 20 billion years old, emitting bursts of light and even radio noises.

LALANDE 21185 8.2 LIGHT YEARS

MASS
0.35

LUMINOSITY
0.0052

Although it is a variable 'flare-type' star emitting bursts of light, a large dark companion of mass 20 relative to Jupiter with an orbital period of 420 days and an orbital distance of some 10.5 million kilometres seems to be present - it is probably a brown dwarf (ie. this may be more a star than a planet). Lalande 21185 (spectral type M2) is about 20 billion years old.