Matt McIrvin on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k I recall an old kid's book on astronomy that described Alpha ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqaufa4k (nprofile…fa4k) I recall an old kid's book on astronomy that described Alpha Centauri as "actually three stars close together", but from a visual perspective that's not quite right: Proxima's orbit is so huge that if it were bright enough to see with the naked eye, it wouldn't even look like part of a multiple star system; it'd just be another star in Centaurus. We can't resolve it easily because it's dim.