"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."-Brainy Quote. There are a hundred stars in the sky on a clear night. There are also hundred more when looking through a telescope. With the announcment of the detection of the star Proxima Centauri, it set off excitement in the scientist community about an "Earth-like" star.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf srat that has lowmass and is about 4.25 light years from the Sun. This star was discovered by Robert Innes who was an astronomer in South Africa. When discovering this star he realized that it had the same motion as Alpha Centauri. He then recommended that it be named Proxima Centauri. with its magnitude being around 11, it is impossible to see this star without a telescope. Proxima Centauri is the nearest known star to the Sun.
A star is a steady point in the sky that is an immense body like the Sun. There are several ways to observe a star, like using a telescope. Joan Voute, an asronomer, determined that the star's trigonometric parallax is at 0.755 ± 0.028″. He also discovered that this star is relativly the same distance from the Sun as Alpha Centauri. At the time, proxima Centauri was considered to be the smallest-luminosity star. Analysis of …show more content…
A trip in a spacecraft to a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri would call for thousands of years. What are the limitations of sendign spacecraft to this star? First and foremost, it would take hundreds to thousands of years to even reach this star. Even though Voyager is approcahing the border of the solar system, it took 35 years to get to where it is at now and this spacecraft requires another 70,000 years to reach proxima Cenauri. If humans traveled to this star they would have to accept the fact that they will never return to Earth. They will spend the rest of their lives floating around in space. Also, the passengers will obtain boredom throught this neverending
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf srat that has lowmass and is about 4.25 light years from the Sun. This star was discovered by Robert Innes who was an astronomer in South Africa. When discovering this star he realized that it had the same motion as Alpha Centauri. He then recommended that it be named Proxima Centauri. with its magnitude being around 11, it is impossible to see this star without a telescope. Proxima Centauri is the nearest known star to the Sun.
A star is a steady point in the sky that is an immense body like the Sun. There are several ways to observe a star, like using a telescope. Joan Voute, an asronomer, determined that the star's trigonometric parallax is at 0.755 ± 0.028″. He also discovered that this star is relativly the same distance from the Sun as Alpha Centauri. At the time, proxima Centauri was considered to be the smallest-luminosity star. Analysis of …show more content…
A trip in a spacecraft to a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri would call for thousands of years. What are the limitations of sendign spacecraft to this star? First and foremost, it would take hundreds to thousands of years to even reach this star. Even though Voyager is approcahing the border of the solar system, it took 35 years to get to where it is at now and this spacecraft requires another 70,000 years to reach proxima Cenauri. If humans traveled to this star they would have to accept the fact that they will never return to Earth. They will spend the rest of their lives floating around in space. Also, the passengers will obtain boredom throught this neverending