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Possible Planet Is Spotted Around Neighboring Alpha Centauri Star
Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system ...
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JWST detects giant exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri star system - just 4 light-years away
A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...
Astronomers find evidence for new planet 4 light-years away from Earth
CINCINNATI (WKRC/NASA/CBS Newspath) - Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence ...
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Our Nearest Sunlike Star Might Have a Planet, JWST Shows in Stunning Finding
In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Breakthrough: How a Disappearing Planet May Rewrite Exoplanet Science
If finding exoplanets around our nearest stellar neighbor were easy, astronomers would have mapped Alpha Centauri’s planetary system long ago. Instead, the search has required a blend of technical ...
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Webb telescope discovers potential new world in neighboring star system
Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...
If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records
Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable ...
A planet from the Avatar movies may exist in real life
One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of the Avatar series, which centers on a moon that orbits a fictional gas giant ...
'The most significant JWST finding to date': James Webb spots — then loses — a giant planet orbiting in the habitable zone of our closest sun-like star
Alpha Centauri may have a "disappearing planet', new James Webb Space Telescope observations hint. If confirmed, it could be ...
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James Webb Space Telescope spots a potential new exoplanet just 4 light-years away from Earth
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...
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A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...
Avatar's Pandora real? Planet found in Alpha Centauri
Could James Cameron's "Avatar" have foreseen a cosmic reality? The Avatar movies, starting with the 2009 blockbuster, ...