You're right about that !
Yes, but just in case anyone is wondering, our Sun is the closest star to Earth.
It's way out there, about 4.2 light years from here.
Proxima Centauri is about the same age as our Sun ~ 4.5 billion years old.
So it's certainly not a new star, nor an old star, but lets say it's middle aged.
Right next to the Sun; only 4.2 light years away! We are about 2/3 of the way out from the center in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.
no.
Proxima Centauri is a star. It has no life forms.
A star system
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Proxima Centauri is a very dim red-dwarf companion of the bright star Alpha Centauri in the southern Centaurus constellation. Proxima is about 4.2 light years from Earth, while Alpha Centauri is 4.5 LY away. Even though Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own, it is almost invisible to the naked eye.
No. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf.
Proxima Centauri is a star. It has no life forms.
As the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri is in our galaxy.
A star system
1 / as = 1.3003901170351105331599479843953 Distance to Proxima Centauri from wikipedia is 1.3009 ± 0.0005 PC
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Proxima Centauri, our closest neighboring star, is considered a red dwarf star. It is made of up plasma, helium and hydrogen.
Yes, Proxima Centauri is a main-sequence star and will remain so for about another four trillion years.
Alpha Centauri
Not without a telescope. Proxima Centauri is a dim star.
Alpha Proxima is a term used in the Star Trek universe as, apparently, an alternative name for Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Solar System. The term "Alpha Proxima" is not used outside literature. Astronomers refer to the two stars of the binary star system closest to our Solar System as Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri. (The link below to Wikipedia talks about the star system. The other link (Proxima Centauri) refers to references within Star Trek.) The Alpha Centauri System is a triple star system with Alpha Centauri AB being a double Star directly gravitationally bound to each other. Proxima Centauri is a much smaller star further away but it is assumed they are gravitationally associated with each other. Perhaps they are refering to this Star when using the term Alpha Proxima.
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