Astronomers See Glimmers Of A Second World Circling The Nearest Star To The Sun

A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of our nearest stellar neighbour, a star called Proxima Centauri. Scientists are hunting for a second planet in this system—and maybe, maybe, they’ve found something.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Astronomers See Glimmers Of A Second World Circling The Nearest Star To The Sun

A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of our nearest stellar neighbour, a star called Proxima Centauri. Scientists are hunting for a second planet in this system—and maybe, maybe, they’ve found something.

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:-) But beware that a large fraction of tentative exoplanet discoveries have vanished on closer inspection.

I eagerly await discovery of a planet circling Alpha Centauri A or B. Now that really would be habitable. Both stars are as sunlike as it is possible to get. Proxima on the other hand has a diameter only a few percent different from that of Jupiter, and is a variable, a flare star.