Another Planet Like Earth?

Credit: ESO./L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

Scientists have confirmed that there is a rocky planet, called Proxima B, with some earthlike qualities that is orbiting a star 4.2 light years away from us.

Learn more at:

https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1629/

http://www.space.com/34334-proxima-centauri-habitable-second-earth-interstellar-alien-life.html

http://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-reveal-that-proxima-centauri-might-be-more-sunlike-than-previously-thought/

Visit the planet as an artist imagines it at

https://www.eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso1629d/