PROXIMACENTAURI
Proxima Centauri
Proxima Centauri 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 it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye . Its distance to the second- and third-nearest stars, which form the bright binary Alpha Centauri, is 0.237 ± 0.011 ly . Proxima Centauri is very likely part of a triple star system with Alpha Centauri A and B.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Proxima Centauri
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