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Astronomers announce Proxima b, a planet around the nearest star

When: 24 Aug 2016
Where: La Silla Observatory, Chile
Sources: 1 public source

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, whose HARPS instrument found Proxima b ESO/A.Santerne, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ESO announced that the Pale Red Dot campaign had found Proxima b, a planet of at least 1.3 Earth masses orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. The result was published in Nature by Anglada-Escude and colleagues.

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OfficialPlanet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star (eso1629) (opens in a new tab)European Southern Observatory / 2016-08-24

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