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Alpha Centauri & Its' Secrets

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Distances between objects in space are often so staggering that the human mind is barely able to fully appreciate them. Sometimes even light takes thousands of years on end to travel from one object to another. However, among myriads of stellar systems scattered across the vast expanses in the universe there is only one that may be truly called closest to us. There are three stars mutually bound by invisible threads of gravitation that lie comparatively nearby by space standards and naturally attract our closest attention. So what is the Alpha Centauri system like?

00:00 Intro
00:44 How far our signals have travelled
01:31 The Alpha Centauri system
02:10 Alpha Centauri А
03:26 Alpha Centauri B
04:54 Proxima Centauri
07:02 Proxima Centauri b
08:25 Proxima Centauri c
10:45 Breakthrough Starshot
11:31 Ending
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According to one of the commenters on that youtube video: Binary and multiple star systems are the most common in the universe. Single star systems like our own are actually rare.
 

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