Photo credit: NASA Wallops/Brian Bonsteel
Video credit: NASA Goddard/Mara Johnson-Groh
Only the two largest stars, Alpha Cen A and B, are visible. These two
stars will be the targets of SISTINE and DEUCE. Image Credits: Zdenek
Bardon/NASA/CXC/Univ. of Colorado/T. Ayres et al.
view of the bright Alpha Centauri A (on the left) and Alpha Centauri B
(on the right), shining like huge cosmic headlamps in the dark. Because
these two stars are, together with their sibling Proxima Centauri, the
closest to Earth, they are among the best studied by astronomers.
And they are also among the prime targets in the hunt for habitable
exoplanets. Image credit: ESA/NASA