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Scientific American Is It a Planet? Astronomers Spy Promising Potential World around Alpha Centauri The candidate could be a “warm Neptune” or a mirage. Either way, it signals the dawn of a revolution in astronomy Print Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, rises above a unit of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO Advertisement For the first time ever, astronomers may have glimpsed light from a world in a life-friendly orbit around another star. The planet candidate remains unverified and formally unnamed, little more than a small clump of pixels on a computer screen, a potential signal surfacing from a sea of background noise. If proved genuine, the newly reported find would in most respects not be particularly remarkable: a “warm Neptune” estimated to be five to seven times larger than Earth, the sort of world that galactic census-takers such as NASA’s Kepler

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