{"id":140,"date":"2026-07-22T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aj-website-pi.local\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:38:08","slug":"wolf-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/wolf-359\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf 359"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a theory that Earth and sun and galaxy and all the known universes are only a dust mote on some policeman&#8217;s uniform in some gigantic super-world. Couldn&#8217;t we be under some super-microscope, right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Wolf 359, the Outer Limits<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolf 359 (also known by its Variable star designation CN Leonis) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. It is one of the closest stars to Earth, with only Barnard&#8217;s Star and the Alpha Centauri System being closer. It held the record of the faintest and least massive star until the discovery of VB 10. An unconfirmed planet may orbit the star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astronomical data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 0.144 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 200,448 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 0.110 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance (in Light Years): 7.85 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: M6V (Red)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">in Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolf 359 is the title of an episode of The Outer Limits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolf 359 is best known for its appearance in Star Trek, as a major battle took place there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolf 359 is also the title of a podcast set in orbit around the star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a theory that Earth and sun and galaxy and all the known universes are only a dust mote on some policeman&#8217;s uniform in some gigantic super-world. Couldn&#8217;t we be under some super-microscope, right now? -Wolf 359, the Outer Limits Wolf 359 (also known by its Variable star designation CN Leonis) is a red dwarf star in the constellation&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/wolf-359\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wolf 359<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-dwarf-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-leo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}