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 Centauri (α Centauri 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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Stars in fiction (redirect from Proxima Centauri in fiction)
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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Flare star (section Proxima Centauri)
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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Barnard's Star (redirect from Proxima Ophiuchi)
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 (redirect from Alpha Centauri Ab)
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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Luhman 16 (section Proximity to Alpha Centauri)
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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