Alpha and Proxima Centauri
Numéro d’image : 12582664
| The sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri and the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri (faint red star, lower-right), the closest star to the Solar System. Proxima is just 4 light-years from the Solar System, in the constellation Centaurus. In 2016 astronomers found clear evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. The world, designated Proxima b, orbits its parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us. It orbits about 7 million kilometres from Proxima Centauri. Although Proxima b orbits much closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, the star itself is far fainter than the Sun. As a result Proxima b lies well within the habitable zone. This image was created from photographic material taken with the 1.22-metre UK Schmidt Telescope at Anglo-Australian Observatory, forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. | |
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| Crédit: | Science Photo Library / De Martin, Davide |
| Taille de l’image : | 5867 px × 5957 px |
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