Proxima Centauri is a small red dwarf star 4.25 light-years away, the nearest known star to the Sun, hosting at least one confirmed Earth-mass exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b, within its habitable zone.
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Exoplanet, Concepts Proxima Centauri hosts the nearest known exoplanet to the Sun.
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Additional Source Proxima Centauri b (Wikipedia)Proxima Centauri b, lead section (orbital relation)
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Also in Divinity Atlas: the constellation this subject lies in.
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1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationPart Of: Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, gravitational binding section (Kervella et al. 2017)Quote, Part Of: Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, gravitational binding section (Kervella et al. 2017)
Kervella et al. (2017) used high-precision radial velocity measurements to determine with a high degree of confidence that Proxima and Alpha Centauri are gravitationally bound.
2. Proxima Centauri (Wikipedia)
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Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star with a mass about 12.5% of the Sun's mass (M☉), and average density about 33 times that of the Sun.
Proxima Centauri, Wikipedia - lead section, catalogue classification
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth after the Sun, located 4.25 light-years (1.3 parsecs) away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
Proxima Centauri, Wikipedia - lead section, constellation
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth after the Sun, located 4.25 light-years (1.3 parsecs) away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.
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Discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, it is a small, low-mass star, too faint to be seen with the naked eye, with an apparent magnitude of 11.13.
In Group: Red Dwarfs, Lead: kind of object
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star
View the SourceProxima Centauri b (Wikipedia)
Orbited By: Proxima Centauri b, Proxima Centauri b, lead section (orbital relation)Quote, Orbited By: Proxima Centauri b, Proxima Centauri b, lead section (orbital relation)
Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri in the constellation Centaurus.
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