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…Proxima Centauri, is the closest star to the Solar System. Credit: A. Fujii. More recently, Stephen Baxter pretty much nailed Proxima Centauri b in his depiction of a just over…

…been actively searching for exoplanets long before the detection of 51 Pegasi b, but the Holmberg paper, taking us back prior to World War II, came as a surprise I…

…the first one billion years Proxima slowly dimmed to its current brightness, which implies that for about the first quarter of a billion years, Proxima b’s surface would have been…

…parallax and the subsequent careers of both Innes and Voûte make for interesting reading. I wrote both astronomers up back in 2013 in Finding Proxima Centauri, but I’ll send you…

…αCen (Worth & Sigurdsson 2016). A speculative scenario is that Proxima b formed as a distant circumbinary planet of the αCen pair, and was subsequently captured by Proxima. Proxima b…

…the same ages and metallicities. As future observations bring increased accuracy to the kinematic measurements, it will likely become more obvious that Proxima Cen is bound to the Cen A-B…

…building up baseline https://t.co/BsC9M2fKNL — Pale Red Dot (@Pale_red_dot) January 25, 2016 Proxima Centauri’s Emergence in Fiction I’ve always been surprised that there wasn’t a greater flurry of interest in…