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Sources and visual assumptions

This edition uses the saved NASA composite snapshot dated 25 September 2026 and its source references. Live research was unavailable. Minimum mass (M sin i) is not the true mass; calculated radii are not measured radii. Illustrated organisms, terrain, weather and societies are fictional. Alpha Centauri A/B placement is illustrative, not an ephemeris.

The inner frontier

The copper appearance is not a mineral detection. The bright stellar disk and rich star field use an illustrative exposure, not a calibrated camera model.

The distant pair

The filename’s ‘triple-star’ wording describes the wider stellar association, not three nearby suns. The foreground brightness and pair separation are artistic.

A shore we have not seen

The large red stellar disk is illustrative. Its apparent size and color are not a calibrated prediction of the view from Proxima b.

Weather is an assumption

Cloud altitude, precipitation, ocean extent and the observer’s relation to the substellar point have not been simulated. Bird-like silhouettes are fictional organisms.

Life beneath the ledge

The wet channel and protective overhang do not demonstrate observed water, biology or a measured radiation environment. The star’s rendered color differs from the earlier artistic scenes.

Signals in the dark

The aurora does not establish a magnetic field or atmospheric composition. Bright foreground detail, faint stars and glowing curtains are combined for narrative visibility.

The world we bring with us

The red sky, settlement, landscape and distant stellar points are narrative scenery, not observations. No chronology links this conflict to the earlier biological scenes.