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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

Proxima Centauri (4 ly, 11 m, Nearest star to the Sun)

 ... Virgo Supercluster Local group Milky Way Arm of the Milky Way Orion Arm Alpha Centauri
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It is so close that we can notice its proper motion, and its distance to us will vary significantly across a few tens of thousands of years!

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Proxima Centauri by Wikipedia Bot 0  1970-01-01
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Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located in the Alpha Centauri star system, which is the closest star system to Earth, situated about 4.24 light-years away. Proxima Centauri is the smallest and faintest of the three stars in this system, the other two being Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which are more similar to our Sun.
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