Alpha Centauri system
Britishnoun
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The group became stranded on a distant planet after their ship, the Jupiter 2, went off course en route to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that is part of the three-star Alpha Centauri system, is our star’s closest neighbor, just four light-years away.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
She is unaffiliated with the study, but her work with her student Lily Zhao has placed the best-yet constraints on the planets that may or may not exist in the Alpha Centauri system.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 10, 2021
The only stars closer are the triplet stars of the Alpha Centauri system, which is mainly visible in the southern sky.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2018
“You know,” I said, “if we were on one of the planets in the Alpha Centauri system, looking toward Earth, we’d see Jesse still alive.”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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