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Astronomers find a “forbidden planet” orbiting an impossibly tiny star
Astronomers find a “forbidden planet” orbiting an impossibly tiny star,Picture this: You’re an interstellar explorer on a colony ship headed to Proxima Centauri b, a star roughly 4.2 light years from Earth. You expect to wake up on the surface of your new home, ready to take your first steps beneath an alien sun, having slept soundly for the duration of the journey. Instead, you’re awoken to a damaged ship, a sizable chunk of the crew missing and presumed dead, and a year left on the travel clock.

Astronomers find a “forbidden planet” orbiting an impossibly tiny star

Picture this: You’re an interstellar explorer on a colony ship headed to Proxima Centauri b, a star roughly 4.2 light years from Earth. You expect to wake up on the surface of your new home, ready to take your first steps beneath an alien sun, having slept soundly for the duration of the journey. Instead, you’re awoken to a damaged ship, a sizable chunk of the crew missing and presumed dead, and a year left on the travel clock.