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10 February 2022

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. This candidate planet is the third detected in the system and the lightest yet discovered orbiting this star. At just a quarter of Earth’s mass, the planet is also one of the lightest exoplanets ever found.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2202/

Kind regards,
The ESO Department of Communication
10 February 2022




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