It has a reddish hue and is invisible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 10.41.
[2] The distance to this star is 28.8 light-years (8.8 parsecs) based on parallax,[1] but it is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −15.3 km/s.
[8] The stellar classification of GJ 849 is M3.5V,[4] which means this is a small red dwarf star generating energy through hydrogen fusion at its core region.
The star has about half the mass and size of the Sun,[3] and is spinning slowly with a rotation period of approximately 39 days.
[3] It is radiating a mere 2.9%[5] of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,490 K.[5] In late 2006, a long-period Jupiter-like exoplanet was reported to be orbiting the red dwarf in a period just over 5 years in length.