It is also a flare star - capable of brightening a magnitude Proxima wasĭiscovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and was at that time the least luminous Pair of stars, requiring over one million years to orbit them. Proxima Centauri - Type= M5, Magnitude=11.0, Distance=4.22 ly This dim red dwarf is the nearest star to the Sun, and it is a member of theĪlpha Centauri system despite lying 0.24 light years from the main Information on the Nearest Stars Sun - Type= G2, Magnitude=-26.8, Distance=0.0000158 ly A typical yellow dwarf star. Quadruple star systems, to demonstrate how stars orbit each other. This is a page showing some simple animations of double, triple and
