Proxima Centauri b
Próxima Centauri b: planeta en la estrella más cercana
- Date
- 2016 · confidence high
- Place
- La Silla Observatory (ESO), Chile
- Credited to
- Guillem Anglada-Escudé and the Pale Red Dot team
- People
- 👤 Guillem Anglada-Escudé1979–
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
An Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of the star nearest to the Sun, 4.2 light-years away, detected with HARPS. A natural target for future interstellar probes.
What it led to
- Breakthrough Starshot project
- Characterisation of planets around red dwarfs