The Very Large Telescope and Alpha Centauri in the night sky (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

The Very Large Telescope and Alpha Centauri in the night sky

Caption

To the naked eye, Alpha Centauri as a single bright star, but the system is actually made up of a pair of binary stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, plus the faint red dwarf Alpha Centauri C, also known as Proxima Centauri, barely visible in this image.

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Yuri Beletsky/LCO/ESO

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