[NEWS] Some links about the discovery of Proxima Centauri b

[rfmcdpei]

The first confirmation I had of the discovery of Proxima Centauri b came from James Nicoll, who shared the European Southern Observatory's announcement that the Pale Red Dot search program bore spectacular fruit.

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Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy, Jennifer Ouellette at Gizmodo, and Franck Marchis at the Planetary Society Blog provided among the first

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[timgueguen]

Given the seemingly unsurvivable places life is found on Earth I wouldn't write it off on this planet. But it would probably be the kind of life that would be hard to detect signs of from Earth.