Proxima Centauri

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the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.

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<New Latin: nearest (star) of Centaurus

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

Proxima Centauri

[ prŏk′sə-mə sĕn-tôr′ē ]

See under Alpha Centauri.