Q: How large should the claimed motion of Barnard's Star appear on this graph? A: The claimed motions are 9.3 and 5.3 milli-arcsec. This graph of measurements from HST has position of the star in units of milli-arcsec on the y-axis. So, if the motions were real, then they would cause sinusoidal wiggles from the top to the bottom of the graph over this five-year period. But we don't see any smooth wiggles of that size on the graph. Just random noise. So the motions aren't real -- and the planets around Barnard's Star don't exist.