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I think you found my new favorite website.

Some of the closest habitable neighbour stars.

tau Ceti: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=tau%20C...

Gliese 876: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=Gliese%...

HD 62509: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=HD%2062...

Gliese 581: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=Gliese%...

This is an interesting example, useless at first glance but you know there are a lot of smaller planets closer to the star. http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=HR%2087...

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Seriously, the orbit visualizations are pretty cool: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=KOI-351...
Was Gliese the one where the aliens from the Battleship movie came from? I think I read somewhere some scientist picked it for the movie.