Why Even the Closest Star Is Out of Human Reach (proxima centauri)
Four light-years away, a small red star burns quietly in the dark. It has three planets. One of them is the size of Earth. And we will probably never touch it. In this video, you will see a star that throws fire storms strong enough to peel a planet, a world locked in eternal twilight, a spacecraft idea the size of a postage stamp, and a journey that would outlive every person watching this. The closest star to our home is also the most impossible.
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Sources:
NASA — Proxima Centauri b https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-ca...
European Southern Observatory — Proxima b Discovery https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/
Breakthrough Starshot Initiative https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/i...
NASA Exoplanet Exploration — Alpha Centauri System https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources...
Nature — Proxima c Discovery (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Astronomy & Astrophysics — Proxima d Confirmation https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
Breakthrough Listen — BLC1 Analysis https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/n...
James Webb Space Telescope — TRAPPIST-1 Observations https://webbtelescope.org/contents/ne...
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