{"id":235,"date":"2026-07-28T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:59:40","slug":"eblm-j0555-57-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/eblm-j0555-57-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"EBLM J0555-57 Ab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EBLM J0555-57 Ab is a red dwarf star in the constellation Pictor. It is the smallest known star (that isn&#8217;t a brown dwarf, white dwarf or neutron star), with a radius of only 0.08 suns. It has a mass of 290 Saturns, the least massive star known. The star was discovered by astronomers at the University of Cambridge.<\/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): 0.08 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 117,484 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 0.08 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance (in Light Years): 669 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: M (Red)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBLM J0555-57 Ab is a red dwarf star in the constellation Pictor. It is the smallest known star (that isn&#8217;t a brown dwarf, white dwarf or neutron star), with a radius of only 0.08 suns. It has a mass of 290 Saturns, the least massive star known. The star was discovered by astronomers at the University of Cambridge. Astronomical data&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/eblm-j0555-57-ab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EBLM J0555-57 Ab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-dwarf-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-pictor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}