Located 4.25 light years/40 trillion kilometres away from our solar system, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us and is a low mass red dwarf star and is expected to live for 4 trillion years more, if it doesn’t get destroyed by something. Proxima Centauri has 3 planets orbiting it, Proxima Centauri b-c-d. B is a super
earth discovered in
2016 and is in the stars habitable zone. C is a debated super earth or super Neptune discovered in
2019. D is a sub earth orbiting very close to the star, it was discovered in
2022.
Astronomer 1: Yo bro, we might not even know if there’
s another planet in the Proxima Centauri system
Astronomer 2:
woah that’
s crazy work