What I want to know is: what's the nearest star with a planet with life? Red dwarfs are common, but their habitable zone is close to the star and many of these stars put out powerful flares, like Proxima Centauri. The combination is not promising.
For more on the nearest stars, try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars
You can see a nice rotating 3d map of them here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Stars-within-11-light-years2.webm
The map below shows 33 stars within 12.5 light years of us, made by Richard Powel.
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