Given their ubiquity, astrobiologists have speculated that a hefty portion of alien life, should it exist, may reside in red dwarf systems. (gizmodo.com)
Alpha Centauri is inside the G - cloud, and the nearest known system to it is the binary brown dwarf system Luhman 16 at 3.6 ly (1.1 pc). (en.wikipedia.org)
The new method should already become viable for white dwarf systems in five years» time as the JWST goes online. (newatlas.com)