Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri:

anghraine:

THESE ARE THE STARS I WAS TALKING ABOUT.

Cool red stars like Proxima Centauri are by far the most common, but of course also difficult to see. And it turns out that they tend to have planets!!

It’s awesome, because—okay, since our sample of life-supporting planets = 1, we’ve had to sort of fumble around with“well, this is what we have, and it works,...