Proxima Centauri

On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare ever measured from Proxima Centauri in ultraviolet light.
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She was using a telescope that detects light at millimeter wavelengths to monitor Proxima Centauri and saw a big of flash of light in this wavelength.
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Proxima Centauri is a small star called a red dwarf—it’s around 15 percent of the radius of our sun, and it’s substantially cooler.
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Even traveling at this dizzying speed it would still take us four years to arrive at Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun.
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“We thought that Proxima Centauri would be a great sort of laboratory for understanding these phenomena,” says lead author Andrew Zic, who undertook the research while at the University of Sydney.
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Alpha Centauri sought to write the next part of that story: the game aspired to tell “a history of the future.”
Nerdiness from Noah: Alpha Centauri|Noah Kristula-Green|March 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The proper annual motion of the sun Alpha Centauri exceeds 188 millions of leagues per year.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
Light then could girdle the earth a thousand million times whilst it comes from Alpha Centauri.
The Astronomy of the Bible|E. Walter Maunder
He noted down the directions and set the cross hairs of his forward observer on Alpha Centauri.
Giants on the Earth|Sterner St. Paul Meek
Infusum centauri, L. From the flowering tops of common or lesser centaury (Erytha centaurium).
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
He found from meridian observations that the star Alpha Centauri had a parallax of about 1.
The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1900|Various

Scientific definitions for Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri

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See under Alpha Centauri.