In Stellaris, Proxima is part of the Alpha Centauri system and has two planets, an icy Tidally Locked Planet (Proxima Centauri b) and a gas giant orbiting farther out.

In Event Horizon, it's the destination to test out the new gravity drive.

They suspect that life may have been transplanted there from yet another planet.

In the Polish novel The Magellanic Cloud by StanisЕ‚aw Lem, humans visit the Alpha Centauri system in a slower-than-light starship and discover signs of organic life on a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.

In the obscure hex-map wargame Cerberus: The Proxima Centauri Campaign, humanity tries to colonize a world in the Proxima Centauri system - which is already inhabited by aliens from Tau Ceti.

which, if you want to get to the star, you have to use since there's no way to target it specifically from the galaxy map for a hyperspace jump) from the jump-in point at Alpha Centauri A.

It also appears in Elite: Dangerous, and once again it's a ridiculous distance (0.22 Light-Years, which is an ungodly long way if you're using supercruise.

It's got the only base in the Alpha Centauri system and it's a stupid distance (almost 10,000 AU) from where you jump into. orbiting the star inside the habitable zone was announced. This does not mean it has oceans, an oxygen atmosphere, or any of the other features that make Earth distinctive. In August 2016 the discovery of an Earth-like world note 'Earthlike' meaning it has a mass similar to Earth, and receives about as much energy from its parent star as the Earth does. From a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B, it would appear as an unremarkable fifth-magnitude star.ДЄ red dwarf with a flare tendency, it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Despite being the closest star to the Solar system, it (like all red dwarfs) is too dim to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. note Technically Alpha Centauri A and B will then alternate being the closest star to the Sun every 80 years as they orbit each other.

It takes over half a million years to orbit the other two stars, and at this moment is about 25,000 years away from being on the 'far' side of the other two relative to the Sun, at which point they will become the closest stars to the Sun. A member of the triple system of Alpha Centauri (its systematic name is Alpha Centauri C) but far enough from the two larger members (about 0.21 ly) to be considered a separate star system for space travelers.

Located in Centaurus, this is the closest star to us. Many of these are used as Stock Star Systems since their proximity to Earth makes their names more recognizable.

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