ESA - European Space Agency on Instagram: "Have we found a new planet? 🪐 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun, Alpha Centauri. Visible only from Earth’s Southern hemisphere, the Alpha Centauri star system is made up of the binary Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, and the faint red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. While there are three confirmed planets orbiting Proxima Centauri

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