Alpha Centauri

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5018. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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The star α Centauri, also known (especially to navigators) as `Rigel Kentaurus' or `Rigil Kent'. With an apparent visual magnitude of -0.28 it is the third brightest star in the sky. A telescope, however, shows it to be a binary system, the components being a yellow G2V star, α Cen A, of magnitude -0.01, and an orange K1V star, α Cen B, of magnitude 1.35. Their separation is currently 19.1'' at p...

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