Sentences with phrase «around the red dwarf proxima»
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth - sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
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Many of those details remain in flux, in part due to the discovery of Proxima b and other less - sensational worlds around red dwarfs.
Project Blue's proposed telescope would have a light - gathering mirror just half a meter wide — so small that it could only look for Earth - like planets around two stars: the Sun - like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which along with the red dwarf Proxima Centauri form the nearest star system to our own at just over four light - years away.
Other recent discoveries of nearby Earth - sized planets have been around red dwarf stars, including TRAPPIST - 1 and Proxima Centauri, but these create less favorable conditions for life.
Hence, Earth - type life around flare stars may be unlikely because their planets must be located very close to dim red dwarfs to be warmed sufficiently by star light to have liquid water (about 0.007 AU for Proxima), which makes flares even more dangerous around such stars.