This artist’s impression reveals a close-up view of Proxima d, a world prospect just recently discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the SolarSystem The world is thought to be rocky and to have a mass about a quarter that ofEarth Two other worlds understood to orbit Proxima Centauri show up in the image too: Proxima b, a world with about the very same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the habitable zone, and prospect Proxima c, which is on a longer five-year orbit around the star. Credit: ESO/L. Cal çada
A group of astronomers utilizing the European Southern Observatory’s
