Cosmic Hide-and-Seek: Webb Spots a Planet Near a Neighboring Star ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $$\alpha$$ Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits"
The [tag:jwst]James Webb Space Telescope[/tag] briefly caught a signal from object S1 — a possible [tag:exoplanet]planet[/tag] around Alpha Centauri A, which then immediately vanished.
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A tiny dot near Alpha Centauri A could be a giant planet, half-hidden by the star’s blinding light. Webb glimpsed it once but never saw it again — maybe the world simply slipped behind the star. If it’s there, it completes an orbit every couple of years and offers hope for a whole planetary system at our nearest cosmic neighbors.
🎯 The same system has Proxima b — an Earth-sized planet where a year lasts just 11 days.
🎬 In ‘Avatar,’ the planet Polyphemus and its moon Pandora orbit Alpha Centauri A — our searches make that world a little more real.