Would you observe a star for a hundred hours in order to find a new habitable planet? To me, it seems... pretty fair. Looking directly at planets that could support life around nearby stars: this is what a new technique proposed by a team of astronomers and presented in Nature Communications can do. The study, which aimed to find a potentially habitable planet within the Alpha Centauri system, after nearly 100 hours of observation and 7 terabytes of images taken, revealed a signal - the candidate planet C1. - - Subscribe for more videos ► Business Enquiries ► Lorenzovareseaziendale@ We have Another Channel ► “Down The Rabbit Hole“ - - A primary pursuit of modern astronomy is the search for worlds that are potentially similar to Earth. Such worlds would help us to understand the context of our own planet and would themselves become
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