Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .This article was originally published at  The publication contributed the article to Space.com's .If you look up in the southern sky you can see the "pointer" stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is , which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close together to tell apart by eye.There is a third member of the Alpha Centauri system as well: (Proxima Cen for short), which circles the central two stars in a wide orbit....…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .This article was originally published at  The publication contributed the article to Space.com's .If you look up in the southern sky you can see the "pointer" stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is , which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close together to tell apart by eye.There is a third member of the Alpha Centauri system as well: (Proxima Cen for short), which circles the central two stars in a wide orbit....WW…