South Lake Union (sometimes SLU) is a neighborhood in central Seattle, Washington, so named because it is at the southern tip of Lake Union.
At 8.304 light-years (2.546 parsecs) away it is one of the stars nearest to the Solar System; only the Alpha Centauri system, Barnard’s Star, Wolf 359, and the brown dwarfs Luhman 16 and WISE 0855−0714 are known to be closer.