Chunks of Alpha Centauri—Our Closest Stellar Neighbor—Might Have Already Reached Us
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
Interstellar visitors: Material from Alpha Centauri may already be here
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
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Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose
Though it appears as a single bright speck in the sky, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, with several suspected exoplanets, including a super-Earth called Proxima Centauri b ...
Interstellar Asteroids Could Originate From Alpha Centauri, Says Paper
New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.
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NASA Space Telescope Spots Record-Breaking Triple Star System
It takes about 550,000 years to complete an orbit around the Alpha Centauri AB pair, but the newly discovered system is a much more compact version of this arrangement. The newly published ...
New video shows how tiny spacecraft will 'swarm' Proxima Centauri
The red dwarf is shown prominently as the probes approach the Proxima b, while Alpha Centauri AB is visible in the far ...
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1 million 'interstellar objects' — each larger than the Statue of Liberty — may lurk in the outer solar system
New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.
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Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose
In a case study published in the Planetary Science Journal and spotlighted by Universe Today, the researchers from The University of Western Ontario hypothesize a scenario in which our nearest stellar ...