Olympia City Jail inmates being housed at the Lewis County Jail Facility. 1  Bebich, Michael J. 2  Beeching, Jason A J. 3  Bell, Grover C Jr. 4  Border, Christopher A. 5  Dausener, Cade A. 6  Duran, Eliot P J. 7  Ekelund, Erin M. 8  Flores, Dominik L. 9  Heard, Demario.
View full size image. The star Proxima Centauri lies a scant 4 light-years from Earth, making it the closest stellar neighbor to our own sun and a perfect target for the Hubble Space Telescope. In this Hubble telescope photo, Proxima Centauri shines as a bright point-like object, but that appearance is deceiving.he image does not show the other two stars which make up a triple star system with Proxima Centauri. Its two companions, Alpha Centauri A and B, lie outside the frame. Hubble acquired the image in 1996, and NASA unveiled it in 2013.
Its data suggests Proxima b has a minimum mass 1.3 times that of Earth and orbits at a distance of about 7.5 million km from the star, taking 11.2 days to complete one revolution. The distance between the star and its planet is considerably smaller than Earth's separation from the Sun (149 million km). But Proxima Centauri is what is termed a red dwarf star. It is much reduced in size and dimmer compared with our Sun, and so a planet can be nearer and still enjoy conditions that are potentially as benign as those on Earth. This planet is at 5% of the Earth's distance from the Sun.