Proxima b: The closest earth-like planet yet, literally next door

[ack]

Fascinating

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/healt...lanet-habitable-zone-neighbor-star/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/jackpot-scientists-find-earth-planet-star-door-41622358

 

[MRJAZZ]

Fascinating

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/healt...lanet-habitable-zone-neighbor-star/index.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/jackpot-scientists-find-earth-planet-star-door-41622358

Yes indeed....

 

[ack]

Some more interesting facts from Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ists-find-earth-like-planet-at-star-next-door

t is 4.6 million miles from its red dwarf star, or just one-twentieth of the distance between Earth and the sun, creating an incredible orange sky with no blue, so it looks like a perpetual sunset. And if that's not different enough, the planet circles its star so quickly that its year is about 11 days.
The planet doesn't rotate, so one side is always facing its star and the other side is always dark and colder. It is bombarded with X-rays and ultraviolet light, but that wouldn't necessarily be fatal to life, since life can exist underground, scientists said.

 

[NorthStar]

Cool, I was just reading about it earlier.

 

[16hz lover]

24 TRILLION miles from us

 

[NorthStar]

Beam me up Scotty.