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A View from Next Door
Alpha Centauri is our Sun's closest star system, just 4.3 light-years away. This illustration imagines a view from that system, with our Sun appearing as a bright star in the background of the Milky Way. The crescent in the foreground represents a planet, Alpha Centauri Bb, which was reported to orbit Alpha Centauri B. This exoplanet was detected using the HARPS instrument, a high-precision spectrograph.
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In tropical astrology, 18 OCT 2012 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 18 OCT 2012.