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The Closest Star From Earth

The Sun is our nearest star – it’s a main-sequence star of spectral type G2V and is located about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the Earth. It’s not the only closest star – there is also a set of three stars known as Alpha Centauri which is 4.3 light years away. It contains […]

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The Closest Star to Earth Other Than the Sun

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Proxima Centauri is the closest star to earth other than our sun. It is a companion star to the binary star system Alpha Centauri A and B, and is about 4.22 light-years from earth. A team of astronomers has discovered a planet called Proxima Centauri d orbiting the nearby star. It’s thought to be smaller

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