File:Objects between sun and alpha centauri.jpg

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English: Schematic view to scale of the space between the Sun and our nearest star system Alpha Centauri. The objects indicated include the Kuiper belt, notable comets and asteroids, inner torus-shaped Hills/Oort Cloud, outer spherical Oort cloud, and known past and future near passing stars. On the x-axis, objects are ordered from left to right by their distance from the Sun.
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Author Pablo Carlos Budassi

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Schematic view to scale of the space between the Sun and the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.

Items portrayed in this file

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Sun

light-year

astronomical unit

heliopause

Kuiper Belt

Sedna

7291 Hyakutake

Gliese 710

Hills cloud

Oort cloud

HD 7977

Scholz's Star

Elenin

C/2006 P1

C/2017 T2

HD 49995

Voyager 1

UCAC2 15719371

BD-21 1529

Ross 248

Proxima Centauri

Gliese 445

Barnard's Star

Alpha Centauri

creator

some value

object of statement has role: photographer
author name string: Pablo Carlos Budassi
Wikimedia username: Unmismoobjetivo

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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

inception

11 January 2022

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current20:03, 6 November 2023Thumbnail for version as of 20:03, 6 November 202310,800 × 1,080 (4.78 MB)UnmismoobjetivoHD7977 "millions" fix - AB - prox distances Gaia 2021
00:07, 13 April 2022Thumbnail for version as of 00:07, 13 April 202210,800 × 1,080 (7.47 MB)ChermundyAkeson et al. (2021), Gaia EDR3 parallaxes
07:53, 10 April 2022Thumbnail for version as of 07:53, 10 April 202210,800 × 1,080 (7.46 MB)UnmismoobjetivoFixed error in Gliese 710 approach time
11:54, 11 February 2022Thumbnail for version as of 11:54, 11 February 202210,800 × 1,080 (6.5 MB)Unmismoobjetivoadded the 1 parsec indication
06:09, 12 January 2022Thumbnail for version as of 06:09, 12 January 202210,800 × 1,080 (6.5 MB)UnmismoobjetivoUploaded own work with UploadWizard

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