Barnard's Star

Barnard's Star was a star in the Alpha Quadrant that was located approximately six light years from Sol. It was named after Barnard.
In 2364, the location of Barnard's Star was labeled in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the library computer. Later that year, the chart was scanned by Outpost 63. (, production art; )
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=== Background information ===
This star's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of neighboring locations – 61 Cygni, Alpha Centauri, Procyon, Sol, Tau Ceti, and Wolf 359 – as seen in the star charts appearing in the episode and in the episode .
The star chart was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the reference book Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology (p. 77) in the late 1970s. This chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Barnard's Star was a destination on an exploration route.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 44) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Barnard's Star star system was a binary system of two M-class stars. 
In 2018, a candidate planet named was discovered orbiting Barnard's Star.
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