Thirty years ago, astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known #planet orbiting a Sun-like #star.
The Nobel-winning discovery was the culmination of centuries of dreaming, and decades of searching, for worlds beyond the Solar System.
Astronomers have since found more than 6 000 #exoplanets, plus hints of thousands more and the exoplanetary zoo hosts a diversity of beasts.
At the top of many recommendation lists are the two small planets that orbit Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun — just 1.3 parsecs away in the constellation Centaurus.
#astronomy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03220-3