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Proxima Centauri

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Proxima Centauri: see Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri , brightest star in the constellation Centaurus and 3d-brightest star in the sky; also known as Rigil Kent or Rigil Kentaurus; 1992 position R.A. 14h39.1m, Dec. −60°49'.
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Proxima Centauri [′präk·sə·mə sen′tȯr·ē]
(astronomy)
The star that is the sun's nearest neighbor; stellar magnitude is ll, and it is 2° from the bright star α Centauri.
Proxima Centauri 

the star closest to our solar system; located 1.31 parsecs away, in the constellation Centaurus. Proxima Centauri is an eruptive variable star with a visual magnitude of 11. Together with the bright star α Centauri, which is located 0.02 parsec farther away, it constitutes a binary system.
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The sun's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf more than 20 trillion miles away.
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The Observatory had just re-opened after a multi-million dollar refurbishment, and by the door of the gift shop they saw a model of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, with an information plaque indicating that this was one component of a huge scale model of the solar system.
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Another benefit, says Cristina Vitale, communications manager for Proxima Centauri (Turin, Italy), "Because open source software is supported by a huge number of independent developers, it improves quicker than commercial software.
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