• Q Centauri (Q Cen) is a binary star in the constellation Centaurus. It has a combined apparent magnitude of +4.99 and is approximately 270 light years...
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    Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years (1.3020 pc) away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin...
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    Breakthrough Starshot (category Alpha Centauri)
    proposed to Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha Centauri system. At a speed...
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    projects in April–June 2007, when J1407b's disk eclipsed the star V1400 Centauri and caused it to undergo a series of dimming events for 56 days. Astronomers...
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    BLC1 (category Proxima Centauri)
    the Alpha Centauri System". arXiv:2101.04118 [physics.pop-ph]. Choi, Charles Q. (2021-10-26). "Mysterious radio signal from Proxima Centauri was definitely...
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  • century on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The film's central conflict is between the indigenous Na'vi...
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    RR Centauri is a variable star of apparent magnitude maximum +7.29. It is located in the constellation of Centaurus, approximately 320 light years distant...
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    This is a list of fictional creatures and aliens from the universe of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series first...
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    radius of 2,000–200,000 AU. The closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri, is 4.25 light-years (269,000 AU) away. Both stars belong to the Milky...
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    0855−0714 (possibly a rogue planet). The closest system is Alpha Centauri, with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from...
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