Question: is proxima centauri a red dwarf?
Answer: It's because Proxima is so small. It's a red dwarf star with only about an eighth of the mass of the sun. Faint red Proxima Centauri – at only 3,100 degrees K (5,120 F) and 500 times less bright than our sun – is nearly a fifth of a light-year from Alpha Centauri A and B.