Proxima Centauri

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Coordinates: Sky map 14h 29m 42.9487s, −62° 40′ 46.141″

Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri (Laitin [proxima] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), meanin "next tae" or "nearest tae")[1] is a reid dwarf aboot 4.24 licht-years frae the Sun, inside the G-clood, in the constellation o Centaurus.[2][3] It wis discovered in 1915 bi Scots astronomer Robert T. A. Innes, the Director o the Union Observatory in Sooth Africae, an is the nearest kent starn tae the Sun,[4] altho it is too faint tae be seen wi the naked ee (apparent magnitude 11.05).

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  1. ↑ "Latin Resources". Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2007. Retrieved 15 Julie 2007.
  2. ↑ "Our Local Galactic Neighborhood". NASA. 8 Februar 2000. Archived frae the original on 21 November 2013. Retrieved 22 Mairch 2013.
  3. ↑ Glister, Paul (1 September 2010). "Into the Interstellar Void". Centauri Dreams. Retrieved 22 Mairch 2013.
  4. ↑ Kervella, Pierre; Thevenin, Frederic (15 Mairch 2003). "A Family Portrait of the Alpha Centauri System: VLT Interferometer Studies the Nearest Stars". ESO. Archived frae the original on 16 Juin 2008. Retrieved 9 Julie 2007.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
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