# Alpha Centauri

> triple star system in the constellation Centaurus, where one of the three stars, Proxima Centauri, being the closest star to the Earth

**Wikidata**: [Q12176](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12176)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/alpha-centauri


## References

1. [Source](https://www.britannica.com/place/Alpha-Centauri)
2. [Source](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/alpha-centauri-a-triple-star-system-about-4-light-years-from-earth.html)
3. SIMBAD
4. Search for associations containing young stars (SACY). I. Sample and searching method
5. [Our Local Galactic Neighborhood](http://interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/interstellar/probe/introduction/neighborhood.html)
6. [SIMBAD](http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?hlinksdisplay=h_all&Ident=CCDM%20J14396-6050AB&Coord=14%2039%2036.204-60%2050%2008.23&NbIdent=query_hlinks&submit=children)
7. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
8. Source
9. [Source](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994A&A...292..115A)
10. Virtual International Authority File
11. The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood. Ages, metallicities, and kinematic properties of ∼14 000 F and G dwarfs
12. TheGaia-ESO Survey: Sodium and aluminium abundances in giants and dwarfs
13. Classification of X-ray sources in the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalog
14. [Source](https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Rigil-Centaurus;3967861.html)