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On August 24th, 2016, researchers announced the exciting news: that they had positively identified a planet about 1.3 times the size of Earth orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away. This is everything we know about our potentially habitable neighbor, Proxima b.

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