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Alpha Centauri system

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Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri or Toliman is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus and the third brightest star in the night sky. The Alpha Centauri system is located 1.34 parsecs or 4.37 light years from the Sun, making it the closest star system to our Solar System. Although it appears to the unaided eye as a single object, Alpha Centauri is actually a binary star system whose combined visual magnitude of −0.27 makes it the third brightest star seen from Earth after the −1.46 magnitude Sirius and the −0.72 magnitude Canopus. Its component stars are named Alpha Centauri A, with 110% of the mass and 151.9% the luminosity of the Sun, and Alpha Centauri B, at 90.7% of the Sun's mass and 44.5% of its luminosity. During the pair's 79.91-year orbit about a common center, the distance between them varies from about that between Pluto and the Sun to that between Saturn and the Sun. A third star, known as Proxima Centauri, Proxima, or Alpha Centauri C, is probably gravitationally associated with Alpha Centauri AB. Proxima is at the slightly smaller distance of 1.29 parsecs or 4.

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Translation of «Alpha Centauri system» into 25 languages

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半人马座阿尔法星系统
1,325 millions of speakers
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Sistema Alpha Centauri
570 millions of speakers
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Alpha Centauri system
510 millions of speakers
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अल्फा Centauri प्रणाली
380 millions of speakers
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نظام ألفا قنطورس
280 millions of speakers
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Система Альфа Центавра
278 millions of speakers
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Sistema Alpha Centauri
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আলফা Centauri সিস্টেম
260 millions of speakers
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Système Alpha Centauri
220 millions of speakers
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Sistem Alpha Centauri
190 millions of speakers
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Alpha Centauri -System
180 millions of speakers
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アルファケンタウリシステム
130 millions of speakers
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센타 우 루스 자리 알파 시스템
85 millions of speakers
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Sistem Alpha Centauri
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Hệ thống Alpha Centauri
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ஆல்ஃபா சென்டரி அமைப்பு
75 millions of speakers
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अल्फा सेंटॉरी प्रणाली
75 millions of speakers
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Alpha Centauri sistemi
70 millions of speakers
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Sistema di Alpha Centauri
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Układ Alfa Centauri
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Система Альфа Центавра
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Sistemul Alpha Centauri
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Σύστημα Alpha Centauri
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Alpha Centauri stelsel
14 millions of speakers
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Alpha Centauri systemet
10 millions of speakers
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Alpha Centauri -systemet
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM»

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First Ark to Alpha Centauri 2: The True Price of Immortality
Itas been two years since the Centauri Princess was plagued by a series of attacks from mysterious, winged wolf-like creatures arriving from the interstellar night.
A. Ahad, 2006
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Alpha Centauri, the nearest star
Discusses the constellations and stars, their distance, luminosity, and size, steller astronomy, starlight, and life on other planetary systems, with special reference to the third brightest and also the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
Isaac Asimov, 1976
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the ...
It wasn't until 1915 that proper motion studies ofstars by R. T. Innes turned up an amazing discovery: the third, very dim member of the Alpha Centauri system, surprisingly far from the A and B pair. Because this third star had a larger parallax  ...
Fred Schaaf, 2008
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Centaurian Dawn
After a ship malfunction leads to the death of the captain, members of the starship Unity break into factions, hindering plans for building peaceful human civilization on their new planet.
Michael Ely, 2000
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Light Years Away: The Whole Creation at a Glance
More Cepheids have also been discovered, which helps a lot in the measurement of stellar distances. The Alpha Centauri System Sun is our nearest star. After sun the neighbouring stars of the Alpha Centauri system are the next nearest stars ...
Sudhir Routray, 2004
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Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel
Our home system is most impressive to us in this regard, because we know it best ; it is ours. The Alpha Centauri system presents an even greater complexity. These two systems are involved in a cho- reography of celestial titans, with their ...
Michael D. O'Brien, 2013
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The Rough Guide to the Universe
Our near neighbours in the Alpha Centauri system are a good example. The two bright stars in the system. Alpha Centauri A and B, are solidly middle-aged (about 6 billion years old) and move around in an orbit that takes them as close as 1 1 ...
John Scalzi, 2003
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Federation
Just after the turn of the century, astronomers on Earth, using ground-based, adaptive optic telescopes, had resolved at least two additional bodies in the Alpha Centauri system: two large planets caught up in a complex, oscillating orbital ...
J & G Reeves-stevens, 2012
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Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
Recent studies of Proxima Centauri have tended to favor the latter hypothesis, as its radial velocity seems too great for Proxima to remain within the Alpha Centauri system. Moreover, its frequent flare activity suggests that Proxima may be ...
Paul Gilster, 2004
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Cape Town Planetarium's Starwatching: A Southern Hemisphere ...
Whereas the distance to the outer planets in our Solar System is over four light hours, here we see that the distance to the Alpha Centauri system is over four light years! When we look at Alpha Centauri in the night sky - we see it as one of the ...
Anthony Fairall, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM»

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On the Move with Barnard's Star and 61 Cygni
That makes it the second closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system. Discovered by American astronomer E. E. Barnard in 1916, ... «Sky & Telescope, Jun 15»
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A James Cameron's Avatar global exhibition, showcasing the …
An examination of the Alpha Centauri system, home to the fictional planet Polyphemus and its moon Pandora, that offers visitors a multimedia ... «Inside the Magic, May 15»
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Evaluating NASA's Futuristic EM Drive
In particular, the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star system to our solar system at just 4.3 lights year's distance, received specific mention ... «NASASpaceflight.com, Apr 15»
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James Cameron's Avatar Goes on a Global Exhibition Tour Next Year
Attendees will get to explore various aspects of the record-breaking sci-fi film, including a "multimedia journey" into the Alpha Centauri system, ... «IGN, Apr 15»
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Colors of life on exoplanets
... timescale of a human lifespan to even the next-nearest known planet (which happens to belong to the Alpha Centauri system, just next door). «EarthSky, Mar 15»
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Before They Were (Binary) Stars
The Alpha Centauri system, Algol and its companions, and the Dog Star and the Pup of Sirius are just a few well-known multiples that come to ... «SkyandTelescope.com, Feb 15»
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Planet Hunters Bet Big on a Small Telescope to See Alien Earths
According to Belikov, a mirror Earth in the Alpha Centauri system would be about a hundred times brighter in reflected light than the “typical ... «Scientific American, Jan 15»
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How Much Money Would an Earth-Like Exoplanet Really Be Worth …
Laughlin had also run his equation on a purely hypothetical Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of one of the two Sun-like stars in the Alpha Centauri system. «io9, Dec 14»
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Sorry Matthew McConaughey, but travelling between stars like in …
The closest star to us is the Alpha Centauri system, at 4.3 light years away. Meanwhile, most of the other twinkling light we see in the night sky ... «Yahoo News Canada, Nov 14»
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Legendary TV Rebooting 'Lost in Space'
... in Space followed the Robinson family, who are selected by the U.S. government to colonize a planet of the nearby Alpha Centauri system. «Comic Book Resources, Oct 14»
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