# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-luhman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:18:47.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-luhman"
name: "Kevin Luhman"
slug: "kevin-luhman"
description: "Kevin Luhman is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics from Pennsylvania State University who discovered both the third-closest stellar system, Luhman 16, and the fourth-closest stellar system, WISE 0855−0714, to the Sun. Both systems are composed of substellar objects, falling into the category of brown dwarfs or even less massive objects which are categorized as sub-brown dwarfs but also referred to as \"free floating planets\" or \"planetary mass objects\". WISE 0855−0714 is the coldest massive object outside the Solar System that has been directly imaged."
tagline: "Astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674154666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Luhman"
    title: "Kevin Luhman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Luhman"
    title: "Kevin Luhman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Luhman"
    title: "Kevin Luhman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Кевін Луман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Luhman"
    title: "Kevin Luhman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Луман, Кевин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7385126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump