There isn't much to "discover" here - Alpha Centauri is the third-brightest star in the sky. People must already have seen him tens of thousands of years ago.
Proxima Centauri was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes.
No one "discovered" Alpha Centauri - it has been visible in the night sky since the dinosaurs.
Proxima Centauri is a star. It has no life forms.
A star system
About 4.2 light years from earth. and its ProXima Centauri :)
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Proxima Centauri is in the constellation Centaurus.
Proxima Centauri has a temperature of about 3,042K
Proxima Centauri _IS_ a sun.
No. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf.
Yes. Proxima Centauri was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, the Director of the Union Observatory in South Africa, and is the nearest known star to the Sun.
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.
Proxima Centauri - album - was created on 2001-10-15.
1 / as = 1.3003901170351105331599479843953 Distance to Proxima Centauri from wikipedia is 1.3009 ± 0.0005 PC
To my understanding, the Alpha Centauri system contains two binary stars (Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B) and a third star Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri (which is the closest star to our sun)
Proxima Centauri is too dim to bee seen without a telescope.