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Discovery of a Planet around our Nearest Star: Proxima b (2016x24)

Air date: Aug 23, 2016

Dr Guillem Anglada gives the first remote Cool Worlds video to explain the very special discovery announced today by his team - a planet orbiting our nearest star. Dr Guillem Anglada walks you through the journey of discovery and what this detection means to him. Make sure you check out the Pale Red Project website below! ::More about this Video:: ► Pale Red Project: www.palereddot.org ► Anglada-Escude et al. (2016), "A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri": https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03449 ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!!