On this day in 1839 – January 9th – Thomas Henderson published his determination of the distance to Alpha Centauri.
Henderson had actually been the first person to calculate the distance to a fixed star by using stellar parallax. However he had delayed publishing his results, and the credit for being first went elsewhere.
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