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Old September 4th, 2003, 07:36 AM
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Default Re: The REAL milky way galaxy map - sol @ centre ;)

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Originally posted by Kamog:
[On the big map] What are all those objects with names like "CD-28°302 -0:0:-14" and so on? Are they stars that don't have names? I thought Alpha Centauri was the closest star but there are several of these objects closer to Sol then Alpha Centauri. What are they?
IIRC, there are a few very dim red dwarf stars closer to us than Alpha Centauri. They have only been seen/discovered very recently, but are too dim to see without a very powerful telescope...preferably an infrared one.

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