Tag: Alpha Centauri
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A Third Planet Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri
Introduction A third planet, as large as 26% of the mass of Earth, has been discovered orbiting our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri .Astronomer João Faria and his collaborators detected Proxima Centauri d using the Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations. It would be exciting to send a spacecraft to enter the…