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Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b by Alan Boyle on October 3, 2016 at 10:59 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

The Proxima Centauri system can be understood as a miniature version of our solar system. The red dwarf star is only about 1/7 the diameter of the sun, or about 1.5 times that of Jupiter.

Proxima Centauri itself is an interesting star that's very different from our own. It's extraordinarily small, dim, and faint by solar standards, possessing just: 15% of the Sun's radial size, ...