Not without a telescope. Proxima Centauri is a dim star.
Proxima Centauri is in the constellation Centaurus.
Proxima Centauri _IS_ a sun.
I was 64.
Proxima Centauri is a star. It has no life forms.
No, Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri do not revolve around each other.
As the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri is in our galaxy.
Simply because it is too dim to see with the naked eye. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf; basically, red dwarves are much dimmer than our Sun.
Proxima Centauri - album - was created on 2001-10-15.
The distance to Proxima Centauri in parsecs can be calculated using the formula: distance (in parsecs) = 1 / parallax angle (in arcseconds). Therefore, the distance to Proxima Centauri is approximately 1.30 parsecs.
When you look up at the sky at Proxima Centauri, you see it as it was 4.2 years ago. It will be another 4.2 years from now before somebody at Proxima Centauri sees you looking down at him. He will be troubled, and will wonder why you are looking down at him.
No, Proxima Centauri is not a yellow star. It is a red dwarf star, which means it has a cooler temperature and emits most of its light in the red and infrared spectrum.
Proxima Centauri is 4.243 light years away, or 2,231,648 light minutes.