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    Proxima Centauri c (also called Proxima c or Alpha Centauri Cc) is a controversial exoplanet candidate whose detection could not be recreated, claimed...
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    Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth after the Sun, located 4.25 light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus. This object was...
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    Proxima Centauri d (also called Proxima d) is a candidate exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun and part...
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    Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri in the constellation Centaurus. It can also...
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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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    Breakthrough Starshot (category Proxima Centauri)
    proposed to Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha Centauri system. At a...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Centauri (HD 100825) C3 Centauri (HD 101067) γ Centauri Alpha Centauri C (Proxima Centauri) σ Centauri 3 Centauri This set index article includes a list of...
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    search for signs of life on planets orbiting stars in and around the Alpha Centauri system. The announcement was at the annual conference of the American Geophysical...
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    McArthur, Barbara E. (June 2020). "A Moving Target—Revising the Mass of Proxima Centauri c*". Research Notes of the AAS. 4 (6): 86. Bibcode:2020RNAAS...4...86B...
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  • cloud from a collision of asteroids rather than a planet. Similarly, Proxima Centauri c has been observed to be far brighter than expected for its low mass...
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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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    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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    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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  • P. (1 October 2020). "An Earth-like Stellar Wind Environment for Proxima Centauri c". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 902 (1): L9. arXiv:2009.07266...
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  • AIMStar (category Alpha Centauri)
    would be able to study the interstellar medium as well as reach Alpha Centauri. The project would require more antimatter than we are capable of producing...
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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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    G-Cloud. The G-Cloud contains the stars Alpha Centauri (a triple star system that includes Proxima Centauri) and Altair (and possibly others). Estimates...
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    approximately 4000 years. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system composed of a binary system orbited by Proxima Centauri, currently the nearest star to...
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  • Pablo A. (1 January 2020). "A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU". Science Advances. 6 (3): eaax7467. Bibcode:2020SciA...
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  • Starlight (interstellar probe) (category Alpha Centauri)
    sending them to a star neighboring the Solar System, potentially Alpha Centauri. The project aims to send organisms on board the probe. Starlight aims...
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    close as 11 AU or as far away as 36 AU. Proxima Centauri, also (though less frequently) called Alpha Centauri C, is much farther away (between 4300 and...
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  • potentially habitable 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...
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  • Tuomi helped discover the Proxima Centauri b planet by observing the gravitational tug of Proxima Centauri's star, Proxima Centauri. Tuomi participated in...
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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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  • colleagues published a paper on the discovery of Proxima Centauri c, the second exoplanet near Proxima Centauri. To exclude fluctuations in spectrum resulted...
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  • Mario; et al. (15 January 2020). "A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU". Science Advances. 6 (3). eaax7467. Bibcode:2020SciA...
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