Question

Part A

The goal of your paper is to describe the history of the discovery and research of Proxima Centauri. Another goal is to find the possibilities of traveling to this star. Some questions that your paper should answer are:

When was Proxima Centauri discovered?
How was Proxima Centauri discovered?
How have scientists researched Proxima Centauri?
What technologies have they used? What types of data do these technologies collect?
Have spacecraft ever reached this star?
What are the limitations of sending spacecraft to Proxima Centauri?
What accommodations would humans need to travel to Proxima Centauri?
Now write down two more questions you have about Proxima Centauri that you plan to answer in your paper.

Answer 1

Proxima Centauri was discovered in 1915.

Robert Innes used a blink comparator to examine a photographic plate showing an area of 60 square degrees around Alpha Centauri.

The sixty-four-meter radio telescope at Parkes Observatory in Australia.

they used the James Webb Space Telescope and The sixty-four-meter radio telescope.

no nothing as been to Proxima Centauri it would take about 54,400 years to get there.

getting to Proxima Centauri, our solar system's nearest star, would take four years and three months. And that is travelling at light speed, a velocity well beyond our reach. The quickest we could currently get to Proxima Centauri, using our fastest rockets, is 80,000 years.

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