Proxima Centauri b

Yeah.

And like, you know, there's a ship that is on Proxima Centauri, Proxima B, and we were, I was really thinking for a long time, like, how do we make that, not the main part of the story.

Like, the story should be about humans on Earth.

Yeah.

Selbst ein so kleiner Stein wie, na ja, der da.

Und mit der dünnen Atmosphäre von Proxima B, nun ja nun, pass auf die Winde und Felsen auf.

Proxima Centauri B bekommt eine fünf von zehn Punkten.

Weiter geht's.

I wouldn't recommend it.

This is Proxima Centauri B.

His constant exposure to radiation makes him the Hulk of exoplanets.

This planet orbits around Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that is only an eighth of the mass of our sun, but it is able to release 100 times more powerful solar flashes.

At this moment, Chase's genetic code is undergoing an active mutation, causing a slow and total collapse of the organs.

In the next few hours, Chase's bone marrow will stop producing blood cells, its gastrointestinal tract will block and the collapse of the circulatory system will cause an accumulation of liquids in the brain it's hard to say what will kill him first.

Proxima Centauri b is one of the most lethal exoplanets ever.

Even if you could withstand those levels of radiation, it would be difficult to manage extreme weather conditions.

Not only could it take us centuries to set up a transfer plan of this magnitude, but we will also use various generations to reach a new potential home.

Right there, there is Proxima Centauri b, also simply called Proxima b.

It is the potentially habitable planet closest to Earth.

Its temperatures are in the habitable interval and it could have a breathable atmosphere.

We would only have to reach it.

How long would our journey last? How many people would we send to settle on the new planet? And could Proxima b turn out to be less hospitable than we hoped? This is what would happen if we transferred humanity to Proxima b.

When astronomers began to discover planets and exoplanets outside our solar system, we realized that there are many worlds out there.

This does not mean that the Earth must necessarily be our only home forever, and that we must not die together with our planet when the sun will engulf it in about 5 billion years.

It was a very, very light probe that had a solar sail around it that then would be shot using super powerful lasers to accelerate to about 20% the speed of light and arrive at, or not arrive, it would do a flyby of the nearest star, which is...

Proxima Centauri, and also the nearest known exoplanet, Proxima B, do the flyby, send us back images, which of course would take four years to come back.

So within a lifetime, 20 years, maybe 30 at the most, we would potentially have images of another star, another planet.

It would be one of the biggest scientific news events of the century, if not the millennia.

Within that system sits Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star gravitationally bound to the larger binary pair of Alpha Centauri A and B, but orbiting at a considerable distance from them.

In August of 2016, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri B, a rocky exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of its host star.

The planet has a minimum mass of approximately 1.27 Earth masses, placing it firmly in the rocky planet category.

It orbits close to its star, completing one full revolution in just 11.2 Earth days.

But because Proxima Centauri is a dim red dwarf, emitting far less radiation than our Sun, Its habitable zone lies much closer in than the habitable zone of a solar-type star.

Proxima Centauri b is not confirmed to be habitable.

Red dwarf stars are known to produce intense stellar flares that could strip planetary atmospheres over time.

Tidal locking, where one hemisphere perpetually faces the star while the other faces away, may create extreme temperature differences that challenge atmospheric stability.