Alpha Centauri
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Alpha Centauri is a system with with three stars (Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri) that is 4.243 light-years away from Earth. It is often depicted to have habitable planets in fiction because Alpha Centauri A & B have similar spectral types, age, star type, and probable stable orbits.
Alpha Centauri in science fiction
- The events of James Cameron's 2010 film Avatar take place on Pandora, a moon orbiting the fictional gas giant Polyphemus in orbit of Alpha Centauri.
- Proxima Centauri is an Earth Alliance colony in Babylon 5.
- Alpha Centauri has two habitable planets that are Earth colonies in Star Trek. Alpha Centauri is also one of the founding members of the United Federation of Planets.