Proxima Centauri.

Proxima Centauri's the nearest star.

SHELDON: Proxima Centauri's the nearest star.

But Proxima Centauri will eventually die.

'and open the gateway to Proxima Centauri. "'Ave atque vale."

The nearest star is a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri... nearly 25 trillion miles away.

That's John Kilpack, ship's captain. ..we're preparing to engage the gravity drive and open the gateway to Proxima Centauri.

And that means that stars like Proxima Centauri will be the last living stars in the universe.

So that in 30 years Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first lightspeed ship to Proxima Centauri.

But the reason it doesn't stand out against the much more distant stars in this photograph is that Proxima Centauri is incredibly tiny.