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The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about four light-years away and has a luminosity about 0.001 times that of the Sun. If Proxima Centauri were at a distance of one light-year instead of four, how much brighter would it appear in the sky?



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twice as bright



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four times as bright



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16 times as bright



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4000 times as bright

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