Click Here to Read: All Eyes on Alpha Centauri: Takeaways from this week’s Breakthrough Discuss meeting By Dirk Schulze-Makuch on the AIRSPACEMAG.COM website on APRIL 14, 2021.
The two bright stars are (left) Alpha Centauri and (right) Beta Centauri, both binaries. The faint red star in the center of the red circle, at right angles to both and south-east of Alpha is Proxima Centauri, intensely red, smaller in size, weaker in brightness and a distant third element in a triple star system with the main close pair forming Alpha Centauri. Taken with Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens with 11 frames stacked, each frame exposed 30 seconds. Image: Skatebiker Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
