Epsilon Eridani

Closest to Solar System

Epsilon Eridani (Epsilon Eridani b discovered August 7, 2000)

• It’s actually a system of planets, not unlike how we like to call our own solar system. 

• The name “Epsilon Eridani” stands for the parent star, or their “sun,” and it has two probable planets orbiting it: one confirmed (Epsilon Eridani b) another yet unconfirmed (Epsilon Eridani c), making it the closest planetary system at just over 10 light years from the solar system.

• It even has not one but two asteroid belts, an inner one between Epsilon Eridani b and the star and an outer one between b and c, and also a dust ring beyond c’s orbit believed to be produced by extrasolar comets bumping into each other.