[7] Gliese 268 in particular is composed of a binary system of two M-type dwarfs, or red dwarfs, and is one of the one hundred closest star systems to the Earth.

[citation needed] Neither is visible to the naked eye from Earth.

[8] In 1975, Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen discovered that Gliese 268 is a flare star.

[1] It received its variable star designation, QY Aurigae, in 1977.

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