page_title: Stars and planetary systems in fiction
section_title: Ross 248 (HH Andromedae)
hierarchical_section_title: Stars and planetary systems in fiction / List of planetary systems in fiction / Ross 248 (HH Andromedae)
caption_attribution_description: Artist depiction of an exoplanet, inspired by the discovery of Gliese 876 d in June 2005. This image is not suited as a depiction of this specific exoplanet (see the German talk page for Gliese 876 d).
context_page_description: The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in many works of the science fiction genre.
context_section_description: Rimrunners (1989) and other Alliance-Union universe works, novels by C. J. Cherryh. Ross 248 is the site of Thule, one of the stations on the "Great Circle" chain of space stations that terminates at Pell Station in the Tau Ceti system.
  "Glacial" (2001), novella by Alastair Reynolds, also published in the collection Galactic North (2006). The ice planet Diadem orbits this star. The onetime location of a since-failed American colony, it is 100 years later explored by the Conjoiner faction as they flee from the war-torn Solar System. Diadem is a planetary sentient being that "thinks" using the transient chemical trails of ice-worms in its mantle much as the human brain uses electro-chemical impulses.
caption: An artist's conception of the innermost (possibly terrestrial) planet of Ross 780 depicting it as a hot, volcanically active world illuminated by red light from the star
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