[DOC] [TLE] Alpha Centauri, closest to our sun | Brightest Stars | EarthSky [PAR] May 19, 2016 ... Third star in the system, a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri, is our sun's ... The 
Alpha Centauri system is the closest star system to our sun. On our sky's dome, 
we see this multiple system as a single star  the third-brightest star visible from 
Earth. ... Alpha Centauri is part of a double, or triple, star system. [DOC] [TLE] Alpha Centauri - Wikipedia [PAR] Alpha Centauri ( Cen) is the closest star system to the Solar System at a 
distance of 4.37 .... A third companionProxima Centauri (or Proxima or  Cen C
)has a ... a triple star system, referred to by double-star observers as the triple 
star (or .... Lying 4.24 light-years away, Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to the 
Sun. [DOC] [TLE] Rigel Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri): Third-Brightest Star - Space.com [PAR] Aug 24, 2016 ... Rigel Kentaurus is the third-brightest star in the night sky. ... is the sun's closest 
neighbor, about 4.3 light-years away from Earth. Rigel Kentaurus is part of a triple 
star system, and the naked-eye star itself is a double star. .... of North Dakota) 
after completing an M.Sc. (space studies) at the same institution. [DOC] [TLE] How far is the closest star? | The Sun's Nearest Neighbor [PAR] Jul 22, 2014 ... Barring the Sun, the closest star to Earth is actually a triple star system ... appears 
to the unaided eye as a single star, the third brightest in the... [DOC] [TLE] Orion Constellation: Facts, Myth, Stars, Location, Star Map ... [PAR] Orion (the Hunter) constellation guide: facts, myth, location, major stars, star map, 
... or chasing after the hare (constellation Lepus) with his two hunting dogs, ... The 
brightest star in the constellation is Rigel, Beta Orionis, with an apparent ... Their 
name for the constellation Taurus was GUD AN-NA, or the bull of heaven.. [DOC] [TLE] Life Cycles of Stars - UWGB Home [PAR] Mar 26, 1998 ... Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is a triple star, with a primary star ... bright 
than the present sun, and the early earth should have been cold. .... Red giants 
include many varieties of variable stars. ... Some giants are massive enough to 
start other cycles of nuclear reactions after their helium runs out;... [DOC] [TLE] blue - Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter -- Object List [PAR] Dec 25, 2010 ... Almach: A star system that is the 3rd brightest star in the ... It was later discovered 
that the dimmer greenish-blue star is in fact a triple star system. ... the naked eye 
is thus a quadruple star system, approximately 350 light-years from Earth. ... or 
any of the other bright stars while our closest star (the Sun) is still... [DOC] [TLE] h2g2 - The Ten Brightest Stars - Facts, Fiction and Folklore - Edited ... [PAR] Aug 12, 2012 ... The brightest stars viewed from Earth (excluding the Sun) were ... Vega, in 
particular, was worshipped by some cultures who thought it marked the entrance 
to Heaven. .... named it after their object of worship  'the Star of Saint Catharine'. 
... Alpha Centauri is a triple star system and the closest star system to... [DOC] [TLE] Planet found in nearest star system to Earth: HARPS instrument ... [PAR] ... a three-star. Earth-Sized planet discovered in Alpha Centauri star system, 4.3 
light-years away ..... You can't see it in this photo, but it's actually a triple star. It's 
composed .... The 3rd brightest star in the night sky, and the closest visible star to 
our Sun ..... Proxima Centauri ; The closest star to our Solar System after the Sun. [DOC] [TLE] Southern Sky Watch 2016 [PAR] Feb 10, 2016 ... In the descriptions of planet and star positions, distances in the sky .... 23-30

Question: This triple star, the 3rd-brightest star in the heavens, includes the closest star to Earth after the sun
Answer: Alpha Centauri