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MiniDaggers wrote: (WARNING Lack of Astronomical Knowledge incoming WARNING)

I thought the closest star to our own was Alpha Centauri? Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system. The three stars are called Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri. Of the three, the closest to us is Proxima Centauri.