Proxima Centauri (Latin proxima, meaning `next to` or `nearest to`) is a red dwarf about 4.24 light-years from the Sun, inside the G-cloud, in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1915 by Scottish astronomer Robert Innes, the Director of the Union Observatory in South Africa, and is the nearest known star to the Sun, although i...
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[short story] `Proxima Centauri` is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that first appeared in the March 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. Unusually for the time, the story adhered to the laws of physics as they were known, showing a starship that was limited by the speed of light, and which took several years to travel between...
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Nearest star to the sun at 4.2 light years away.
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(from the article `star`) ...arc second. Therefore, one parsec equals 3.26 light-years. Since parallax is inversely proportional to distance, a star at 10 parsecs would have a ... triple star, the faintest component of which, Proxima Centauri, is the closest star to the Sun, at about 4.2 light-years` distance. The two brighter ... .....
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(Gliese 551) The nearest star to the Sun at a distance of 4.22 light-years (268,000 AU, or 40 trillion km). Proxima Centauri is a dim red dwarf of spectral type M, 18,000 times fainter than the Sun. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes. Proxima Centauri may be gravit...
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Closest star to the Sun, 4.2 light years away from the Sun. It is a faint red dwarf, visible only with a telescope, and is a member of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system. It is called Proxima because it is about 0.1 light years closer to us than its two partners
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the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
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