A potential companion had also been detected, a 14th-magnitude star (in infrared) 8 arc seconds away. This could have meant a separation of just 1,000 AU (0.02 light-years); however, Gaia Data Release 2 suggests that while those two stars appear to us as separated by a very close angle, the actual distance separating us from this second star is 890 ± 90 light-years, which is more than twice the distance to Przybylski's Star.