STAR NEAREST THE SUN
SOUTH AFRICAN DISCOVERY.
The credit of discovering thei star lying nears"'t to the solar system, belongs to Dr. R. T. A. Innes, of the Union Observatory, and South Africa's leading astronomer. He has callit Prox&ma Centauri, because he has reason to believe from its larger apparent proper motion that d't is neareir to our sun than is Apha Centauri, wihlich till now has "been held to be the star nearest to our solar system. Mr. M. Alden, the Yale astronomer who i s measuring Southern Hemisphere star distances for the Yale Observatory dn< the ground of the Witwatersrand University, has. taken seven exposures of Alpha Centauri and thd star Proxima, and on a rougfo provisional computation he suggests tha!t Proxima may be distant four light years, as compared with four an>l a half light year s of Alpha Centauri.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 3
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