New world, to order

• Autores: Stephen Baxter
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3088, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Baxter talks about his imagination of an earthlike planet found four light years away. In his sci-fi novel Proxima I imagined a habitable planet orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri--the nearest star to the solar system. He called it Per Ardua. Fiction has now turned into partial fact with the discovery of a planet, Proxima b, in this very spot by a team led by Guillem Anglada-Escude at Queen Mary University of London. Until recently they thought that no such planet could be habitable because it must be tidally locked--keeping the same face pointing at its star--leading to extremes of temperature.