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    Proxima Centauri d (also called Proxima d) is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun and part of the Alpha...
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    Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years (1.3020 pc) away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin...
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    Proxima Centauri b (or Proxima b), also referred to as Alpha Centauri Cb, is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima...
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    Proxima Centauri c (also called Proxima c or Alpha Centauri Cc) is a controversial[why?] exoplanet candidate claimed to be orbiting the red dwarf star...
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    three stars: Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri A), Toliman (α Centauri B), and Proxima CentauriCentauri C). Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun...
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    planet whose mass has been measured using radial velocities until Proxima Centauri d was found in 2022. L 98-59 b orbits in 2.25 days and stays so close...
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  • 10 parsecs of the Solar System, and the second-least massive after Proxima Centauri d. In August 2022, this planet and its host star were included among...
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    worldbuilding characteristics". The Alpha Centauri system is the closest star system to Earth—with Proxima Centauri being the closest of the system's stars—which...
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    identified probably did not exist. Proxima Centauri b (Alpha Centauri Cb) Proxima Centauri c Alpha Centauri Bc Alpha Centauri in fiction Project Longshot Dumusque...
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    which is Proxima Centauri 4.25 light-years away. The first confirmed exoplanet discovered in the Proxima Centauri system was Proxima Centauri b, in 2016...
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  • rocky planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth (not counting the Sun). Called Proxima b, the planet is 1.3 times the mass...
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    largest solar flare ever recorded. The Sun's nearest stellar neighbor Proxima Centauri is a flare star that undergoes occasional increases in brightness because...
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    11,800 CE, when it will approach to within about 3.75 light-years. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun at a position currently 4.24 light-years...
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    Candidate 1 (also known as C1 or Alpha Centauri Ab) is an exoplanet candidate directly imaged around Alpha Centauri A in February 2021. If confirmed as an...
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  • February A third planet is detected orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to the Sun. Proxima d, with only a quarter of Earth's mass, is one...
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    a British-born South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer...
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  • the ship in "Proxima Centauri", a 1935 short story by Murray Leinster Adastra, a typeface designed in 1928 by Herbert Thannhaeuser of D. Stempel AG Ad...
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    Dot campaign, which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed...
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    life than the one around Proxima Centauri, called Proxima b. Amos, Jonathan (24 August 2016). "Neighbouring star Proxima Centauri has Earth-sized planet"...
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  • Gliese 367 (redirect from Gliese 367 d)
    10 parsecs of the Solar System, and the second-least massive after Proxima Centauri d. A direct imaging study in 2022 failed to find any additional planets...
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    the closest stars to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A (a Sun-like star that is one of two companions of Proxima Centauri), can be pictured by scaling down the...
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    star/brown-dwarf system to Alpha Centauri, located 3.577 ly (1.097 pc) from Alpha Centauri AB, and 3.520 ly (1.079 pc) from Proxima Centauri. Both systems are located...
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    0855−0714 (possibly a rogue planet). The closest system is Alpha Centauri, with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from...
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  • exoplanet known, at a distance of 12 light-years. Only Proxima Centauri b, Ross 128 b, and GJ 1061 d are closer. Discovered alongside Gliese 273c in June...
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    observations by Thomas Maclear. Alpha Centauri remained the nearest known star until the discovery of Proxima Centauri in 1915 by Robert T. A. Innes. In the...
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    Washington D.C.: 3466–3471. Bibcode:2001AJ....122.3466M. doi:10.1086/323920. Kervella, P.; Thévenin, F.; Lovis, C. (2017). "Proxima's orbit around α Centauri"....
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  • the Proxima Centauri b which orbits the closest star to the Sun. Mikko Tuomi was the first to find indications of the existence of Proxima Centauri b in...
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  • ; Knigge, C.; Bird, A. J.; Breedt, E.; Buckley, D. a. H.; Cavecchi, Y.; Degenaar, N. D.; de Martino, D.; Done, C.; Fratta, M.; Iłkiewicz, K.; Koerding...
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  • J. P.; et al. (2022), "A candidate short-period sub-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 658: A115, arXiv:2202.05188, Bibcode:2022A&A...
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  • constellation Ophiuchus. For comparison, the nearest star to the Sun (Proxima Centauri) is about 4.24 light years away, and the Milky Way galaxy is approximately...
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