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Proxima b Transit Search: Results! (2016x31)

Air date: Sep 27, 2016

For the last month, the Cool Worlds Lab has been working hard to finish our analysis of space-based data to solve whether the recently discovered exoplanet, Proxima b, transits its parent star or not. Prof Kipping explains the roller-coaster of emotions in trying to solve this mystery and reveals the final answer. ::More about this Video:: ► Kipping et al. (2016), "No Conclusive Evidence for Transits of Proxima b in MOST photometry": https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08718 ► Proxima b data and results are available to download at https://github.com/CoolWorlds/Proxima ► 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!!