Gliese may refer to:
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Rochus Gliese (1891—1978), a German actor, director, production designer, and art director
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Wilhelm Gliese
Wilhelm Gliese (, English ; 21 June 1915 – 12 June 1993) was a German astronomer who specialized in the study and cataloging of nearby stars.
Life
Gliese was born in Goldberg, now in Polish Silesia, the son of judge Wilhelm Gliese. He work ...
(1915–1993), a German astronomer, best known for the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars
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Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars, a modern star catalog of stars located within 25 parsecs of the Earth
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Gliese 163
Gliese 163 is a faint red dwarf star with multiple exoplanetary companions in the southern constellation of Dorado. Other stellar catalog names for it include HIP 19394 and LHS 188. It is too faint to be visible to the naked eye, having an ...
, a red dwarf located 49 light years from the Sun
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Gliese 229
Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a binary system composed of a red dwarf and the first brown dwarf seen by astronomers, 18.8 light years away in the constellation Lepus. The primary component has 58% of the mass of the S ...
, a binary system composed of a red dwarf and a brown dwarf about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus.
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Gliese 581
Gliese 581 () is a red dwarf star of spectral type M3V at the center of the Gliese 581 planetary system, about 20 light years away from Earth in the Libra constellation. Its estimated mass is about a third of that of the Sun, and it is t ...
, a red dwarf orbited by several extra-solar planets, at least
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Gliese 581d
Gliese 581d (often shortened to Gl 581d or GJ 581d) is a proposed extrasolar planet orbiting within the Gliese 581 system, approximately 20.4 light-years away in the Libra constellation. It is the third planet claimed in the system and (assumi ...
, a planet in the star's habitable zone
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Gliese 667, a triple star system in the constellation of Scorpius containing exoplanet GJ 667 Cc in one of the stars' habitable zone
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Gliese 682
Gliese 682 or GJ 682 is a red dwarf. It is listed as the 49th-nearest known star to the Sun, being about 16 light years away from the Earth. Even though it is close by, it is dim with a magnitude of 10.95 and thus requires a telescope to ...
, a red dwarf in the constellation of Scorpius with two candidate planets, one of which is in the star's habitable zone
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Gliese 710, a star projected to pass through the Oort Cloud in 1.35 million years
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Gliese 876, a red dwarf approximately 15 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius
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