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  • Alpha Centauri vs. the Farthest Star: Understanding Cosmic Distances
    No, Alpha Centauri is not the farthest star from Earth.

    It's actually one of the closest star systems to us, only about 4.37 light-years away.

    The farthest star from Earth that we know of is GN-z11, a very distant galaxy estimated to be about 13.4 billion light-years away.

    There are likely many stars even farther away than that, but they are too faint and distant for us to detect with current technology.

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