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Starship arrives alpha centauri

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: e-ill02-00601

Image Size 300 DPI: 42 * 27 cm

A habitat two miles across arrives to orbit a hypothetical earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri after a 50-year voyage. The discarded braking stage of the giant starship drifts in the far background. The bright star below the planet is our sun, 4.3 light years away.

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Keywords for this photo:

2012 - ALPHA CENTAURI - ASTRONOMY - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - ILLUSTRATION - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - PROPULSION - PROXIMA B - SCIENCE FICTION - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACESHIP - STAR - SUN -