Centauri in a sentence

Artist's impression of Proxima Centauri b, which orbits Alpha Centauri C in the triple-star system, Alpha Centauri.

In the months leading to the release of Alpha Centauri, multimedia producer Michael Ely wrote the 35 weekly episodes of Journey to Centauri detailing the splintering of the U.N. mission to Alpha Centauri.

Such planets could orbit Alpha Centauri A or Alpha Centauri B individually, or be on large orbits around the binary Alpha Centauri AB.

Added to this would be the changing apparent position of Alpha Centauri B during its long eighty-year elliptical orbit with respect to Alpha Centauri A (The average speed, at 4,5 degrees per Earth year, is comparable in speed to Uranus here.

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn wishes for his people to strike back at the Centauri for what they did, and Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Centauri wishes for his people to become again the great empire they once were.

Beta Centauri is in reality far more distant than Alpha Centauri.

Computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and its expansion Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire are set on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system where all indigenous life appears to behave in accordance with the Gaia philosophy.

In Hawaii, the name for Alpha Centauri was either Melemele or Ka Maile-hope and the name for Beta Centauri was either Polapola or Ka Maile-mua.

Like the probably spurious Alpha Centauri Bb, it would be far too close to Alpha Centauri B to harbour life.

Now certain that Alpha Centauri is not Earth but near it, they approach the remaining system, and are puzzled by the very strong similarities between this star and the larger sun of the Alpha Centauri system.

Orbital period Orbital periods can be less than an hour (for AM CVn stars ), or a few days (components of Beta Lyrae ), but also hundreds of thousands of years ( Proxima Centauri around Alpha Centauri AB).

Planets Alpha Centauri Bb main In 2012, a planet around Alpha Centauri B was announced, but in 2015 a new analysis concluded that it almost certainly does not exist and was just a spurious artifact of the data analysis.

Finally, the Chamber’s hands are untied, and they can go out there and advertise the be jeepers out of Sedona, making Sedona a household name from Madagascar to Alpha Centauri while drawing the kind of quality tourists this town badly needs.

The Swiss team, called alpha-Centauri, consists of 40 students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, most of them aged between 21 and 23. A total of 25 of them are in Australia to take part in the race.

Toliman is a small star system hidden in the shadow of Alpha Centauri.

Jim Swim joins vocalist Alyx Rush to form the R&B duo Sun Centauri.

Omega Centauri seems to be the core of a small, separate whose evolution was cut short when the Milky Way swallowed it, the study suggests.

The merger stripped away most of the smaller galaxy's stars, leaving just the central batch - now the Omega Centauri star cluster.

At a distance of 6.5 light-years, it is the third closest system to our Sun after Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s Star.