{"id":2052,"date":"2016-08-26T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:45","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-proxima-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2016\/08\/26\/pythagorean-astronomy-proxima-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: Proxima b"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist’s impression of the view from Proxima b. Image credit: ESA\/M\/ Kornmesser<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

After a few weeks of rumours, the announcement of the discovery<\/a> of an Earth-size (maybe!) planet around the Sun’s nearest neighbour has caused quite a stir. The planet is more massive than the Earth, but probably not by much, and sits in a location where liquid water could (at least in principle), exist on it’s surface. The detection was made by an international team using data, and relied on observations from a number of telescopes around the world. One of those was the Las Cumbres Observatory<\/a>‘s network of telescopes, working as part of the Pale Red Dot<\/a> campaign, as Edward Gomez<\/a> explains in this month’s episode.<\/p>\n

Proxima b isn’t the only story. There’s also the happy news of the re-awakening\u00a0of STEREO-B<\/a>, a solar observatory that dropped offline a couple of years ago and has finally responded to NASA’s hails (more on that\u00a0from Sounds Like Science<\/a>). And there’s also the discovery of a Niku, a small object out beyond Neptune which is orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Aug2016_full_PHYSX.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Originally broadcast on 25th August 2016 as part of Pythagoras’ Trousers<\/a> on Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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