PROXIMA CENTAURI!

Proxima Centauri, often abbreviated to Proxima, is a red dwarf star of spectral class M5 Ve, located at 4 light years in the direction of the constellation Centaurus; it was discovered by Robert Innes, director of the Union Observatory, in South Africa, in 1915. Part of the a Centauri system, it is the closest star to the Sun.

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PROXIMA CENTAURI B Proxima Centauri b (or more simply Proxima b) is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri (component C of the Alpha

Centauri system located in the

constellation Centaurus).