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The first review I read of Avatar mentioned that the action takes place on Pandora - a planet in the Alpha Centauri Galaxy. So I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the movie and found that Pandora circled the star Alpha Centauri - the closest star to our sun. At least the writers might be able to pass Grade School astronomy (though the pitiful movie reviewer wouldn't).
It would have been nice if they had mentioned which Alpha Centauri star. It's actually a trinary system with three stars - Alpha, Beta, and Proxima. They could have spent 5 seconds of dialog on this, and the audience would have gained a bit of real science knowledge.
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