Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought

Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought Boston MA (SPX) Oct 14, 2016 - In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun. It's a small, cool, red dwarf star only one-tenth as massive and one-thousandth as luminous as the Sun. However, new research shows that it is sunlike in one surprising way: it has a regular cycle ... more

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