Re: Not dead yet
Alpha Centauri is the closest star to us and is the third brightest star in the southern sky. Not invisible to the naked eye!
It's generally (but not universally) accepted that the Alpha Centauri system is the closest to Earth but the nearest known star is Proxima Centauri - the debate is whether it is part of the Alpha Centauri system, not in the distances. At magnitude 11.05 it is also around 100 times too faint to see naked eye.
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