08-15-2016, 05:05 PM
The first thing to do is to have the discovery confirmed as real; the alpha Centauri Bb incident of 2012 (apparently "discovered" by the same team that announced this discovery) would counsel caution*. However, if there is a terrestrial planet orbiting within Proxima's (an M6Ve red dwarf) Habitable Zone, it would be tide-locked and subject to Proximan flares.
* The jury is still out for the existence (or not) of alpha Centauri Bc, though Bb has been shown to be an artifact of the data rather than an actual planet.
Radtech497
* The jury is still out for the existence (or not) of alpha Centauri Bc, though Bb has been shown to be an artifact of the data rather than an actual planet.
Radtech497
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