Detecting Centauri Planets

Centauri Dreams ^ | 02/25/08

[KevinDavis]

What are the chances that we’ll find habitable planets around Alpha Centauri A and B? Centauri Dreams has long kept an eye on the work of Greg Laughlin (UC-Santa Cruz) and colleagues, who have been working on the Alpha Centauri question with ever more interesting results. Following their work on Greg’s systemic site has been fascinating, and for those who would like to be quickly brought up to speed, it’s useful to know that Laughlin has made their recent paper summarizing these findings available online. Anyone serious about the study of these closest stars to Earth will want to download and read these promising results.

[KevinDavis]

Alpha Centauri here I come!

[KevinDavis]

[bravo whiskey]

lando molari is pleased.

[RayChuang88]

We may not find habitable planets around Alpha Centauri A and B, but even finding rocky crust planets around these two stars will increase the chances that other stars within 200 light years the Solar System that are similar to our Sun may have an Earth-like planet, which may confirm the possibility of life evolving to at least lower-animal levels.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kevin.
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[Oberon]

"Great Maker!"

[Brett66]

Fascinating stuff, the Alpha Centauri system contains two of the best stellar candidates for hosting earth-like exoplanets within 30 light years of Earth.

[Dead Corpse]

Alpha Centauri girls are easy...

Naw... doesn't work well as a movie title.

[mowowie]

And this is how we'll get there...