Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star is a non-fiction book by Isaac Asimov. It was first published by Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard in 1976.
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The author discusses the constellations and stars, their distance, luminosity, and size, stelar astronomy, starlight, and the possibility of life on other planetary systems. He concludes that among the possibly habitable ones, the Alpha Centauri system is not only by far the closest but also the most probable.
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