Gliese 293

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title: "Gliese 293" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["volans", "white-dwarfs", "gliese-and-gj-objects"] description: "Star in the constellation Volans" topic_path: "general/volans" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_293" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Star in the constellation Volans ::

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Gliese 293 (or WD 0752-676, or LHS 34, or L 97-12) is a nearby white dwarf star, located 26.64 light-years away in the constellation Volans. It is the nearest star in this constellation and also the only one within 10 parsecs.

Distance

Gliese 293 is the 12th-nearest known white dwarf. A trigonometric parallax of Gliese 293 was included in the YPC (Yale Parallax Catalog), and subsequently it was measured more precisely in CTIOPI (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) Parallax Investigation) 0.9 m telescope program, and by Gaia.

::data[format=table title="Gliese 293 parallax measurements"]

Source	Paper	Parallax, mas	Distance, pc	Distance, ly	Ref.
YPC	van Altena et al., 1995
CTIOPI 0.9 m	TSN-21 (Subasavage et al., 2009)
Gaia DR3	Gaia Collaboration 2023
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Physical parameters

The mass of Gliese 293 is , and its surface gravity is , or approximately 102,000 times Earth's, corresponding to a radius of 8887 km, or 139% of Earth's.

Gliese 293 has a temperature of , almost like the Sun, and a cooling age, i.e. age as a degenerate star (not including its lifetime as a main-sequence star and a giant star) of It has a white appearance due to similar temperature to Sun.

Notes

References

References

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