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Proxima b

Posted on 04 Sep 2016 @ 8:08pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

I mentioned a bit back about the discovery of a world around Proximan Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19106.html

Here is a link the abstract, you have to have a subscription for the full article.

Anyway, as mentioned the planet is in the habitable zone, is rocky in composition about 1.3x earth mass.

 

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