Matt McIrvin on Nostr: For those who didn't click through, that picture is an artist's conception of the ...

For those who didn't click through, that picture is an artist's conception of the planet, not an actual image--there are no images at all of most deduced exoplanets, and images of a few that show them as dots.

Largely because it's so near, Barnard's Star has the fastest visible motion across the sky of any star. It's moving fast enough that if *it* were bright enough to be visible to the unaided eye (which it is not), its position in the constellation Ophiuchus would have noticeably changed over your lifetime.