Episode 666: Two Confirmed Planets at Proxima Centauri. One in the Habitable Zone!
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Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, and still need to confirm thousands more. And over the coming decades, we\\u2019ll probably learn of millions of planets, orbiting stars we\\u2019ve never heard of.
\\n\\nThat\\u2019s why it\\u2019s reassuring to know astronomers are learning a tremendous amount about the closest star system to our own, Proxima Centauri. In fact, we now know of two planets orbiting the red dwarf star, one of which is in the habitable zone.
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References:
\\nhttps://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-confirms-theres-an-earth-sized-world-orbiting-proxima-centauri/
\\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03449
\\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114v2
\\nhttps://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467
\\nhttps://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20200602
\\nhttps://www.universetoday.com/145697/astronomers-might-have-imaged-a-second-planet-around-nearby-proxima-centauri-and-it-might-have-a-huge-set-of-rings/
\\nhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.06685.pdf
\\nhttps://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3
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