We perform long-term simulations, up to ten billion years, of closely-spaced configurations of 2 — 6 planets, each as massive as the Earth, traveling on nested orbits about either stellar […]
Alpha Centauri
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A New Approach For Detecting Planets In The Alpha Centauri System
Yale astronomers have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there. According to a study […]
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Planet Detectability in the Alpha Centauri System
We use more than a decade of radial velocity measurements for α Cen A, B, and Proxima Centauri from HARPS, CHIRON, and UVES to identify the Msini and orbital periods […]
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You Can Still Help Project Blue Search For Another Earth at Alpha Centauri
The deadline is quickly approaching for the BoldlyGo Institute crowdfunding campaign to search for Earth-like planets circling Alpha Centauri. All donations are now being doubled – matched dollar-for-dollar by a […]
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Was Proxima Centauri Captured by Alpha Centauri A and B?
The nearest stellar system consists of the stars Proxima, alpha Centauri A and B and at least one planet Proxima b. The habitability of Proxima b and any other planets […]
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Space Telescope Designed to Directly Image the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri
The scientific interest in directly image and identifying Earth-like planets within the Habitable Zone (HZ) around nearby stars is driving the design of specialized direct imaging mission such as ACESAT, […]
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Searching for Faint Comoving Companions To The α Centauri System In The VVV Survey Infrared Images
The VVV survey has observed the southern disk of the Milky Way in the near infrared, covering 240 deg2 in the ZYJHKS filters. We search the VVV Survey images in […]
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ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives: VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System
ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha […]
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Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Is Ignoring
Editor’s note: “Avatar“, a film by former NASA Advisory Committee member James Cameron, will debut across the planet on 18 December. Widely hailed as “ground breaking” the film may well […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 26 July 2002: Cold feet, chocolate, and home cooking
This morning we watched as three planes arrived – and then departed in quick succession with the Mars Society’s single small Hab crew. Our interaction with them was minimal throughout […]