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Could Proxima Centauri be the key to finding life beyond Earth?

by JoAnna Wendel
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4.2 lightyears away floats Earth’s nearest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri.

It’s smaller and cooler than our Sun, and, as a red dwarf, it’s the most common type of star in the Milky Way.

NASA

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