Proxima Centauri
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Coordinates: 
14h 29m 42.9487s, −62° 40′ 46.141″
Proxima Centauri (Laitin proxima, 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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- ↑ "Latin Resources". Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
- ↑ "Our Local Galactic Neighborhood". NASA. February 8, 2000. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
- ↑ Glister, Paul (September 1, 2010). "Into the Interstellar Void". Centauri Dreams. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
- ↑ Kervella, Pierre; Thevenin, Frederic (2003-03-15). "A Family Portrait of the Alpha Centauri System: VLT Interferometer Studies the Nearest Stars". ESO. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
