[MNDude]

Agreed.

“Our galaxy spans about 100,000 light-years,” Berta-Thompson says. “So this is definitely a very nearby solar neighborhood star.”

So how do they define nearby? Just that it’s not in another galaxy?

[kjam22]

Yep.... it's intellectually a lie to use "close" and "39 light years" in the same sentence.

[Red Badger]

I would say that anything within a 100 light year radius could be classified as ‘nearby’.............................

[muir_redwoods]

All such distance are relative. 39 light years is relatively close by.