BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Alpha Centauri B

STAR · the orange companion
Alpha Centauri B
AI illustration of the real object
TYPE orange dwarfORBIT 80 years with its partner

The slightly smaller, orange half of the famous pair. The two stars waltz around each other every 80 years, sometimes as close as Saturn is to our Sun, sometimes much farther apart. From Earth they merge into one brilliant point, the third brightest in our sky; only a telescope splits them into two.

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