Ross 248 Information

While it is now the ninth closest star to our solar system, around the year 38000AD, the red dwarf Ross 248 will take the place of Proxima Centauri as the closest star to us. However, it is moving so fast, it will only retain that title for about 9000 years. Like Ross 158, Ross 248 is also a flare star and was discovered discovered in 1925 by Frank Elmore Ross who first reported it in his "Second List of New Proper-Motion Stars," Astronomical Journal (36:856). The spacecraft Voyager 2 is currently on a path that will carry it very close to Ross 248. In approximately 40,000 years it will make its closest pass to the star, which by that time will only be about 1.7 light years away.