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<p>Breakthrough Starshot,<a href=" " target="_blank">amass denver< a>, a group funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, wants to do just that. In April the group announced a plan to put $100 million toward developing technology that would send a fleet of nanocraft — robotic probes weighing just a few grams — toward Alpha Centauri, nudging them along with an Earth-based 100 gigawatt laser. Accelerating to roughly 20 percent the speed of light, the armada would arrive at Alpha Centauri about 20 years after launch. In comparison, the fastest spacecraft ever to leave Earth — the New Horizons mission to Pluto — would need roughly 90,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans online< a>,000 years to complete the journey, traveling at its current speed of about 52,000 kilometers per hour.< p><p>“The discovery is likely to energize the project,” says Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb, chairman of Breakthrough’s advisory committee. “A spacecraft equipped with a camera and various filters could take color images of the planet and infer whether it is green (harboring life as we know it), blue (with water oceans on its surface) or just brown (dry rock).” &nbsp;< p><p>If anything is alive on Proxima b, it’s probably quite different from anything on Earth. Photosynthesizing organisms would have to deal with a faint, cool star that emits mostly infrared light. Proxima Centauri is also known for exuberant flares, which would buffet any orbiting planets with bursts of ultraviolet radiation and X-rays. “Conditions on such a planet would be very interesting for life,” says Lisa Kaltenegger,air jordans for cheap, an astrophysicist at Cornell University.< p><ul>
  
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 anything does crawl or grow on these worlds, it bathes in mostly infrared light. The innermost planets receive several times as much energy from their star as Earth does from our sun,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap air jordans< a>, which technically puts them outside the star’s habitable zone (<em>SN: 4 30 16, p. 36< em>). But the planets are huddled up so close to the star that gravity might keep them from spinning, creating a temperate zone along the line where day turns to night, the researchers suggest.< p><p>Faint red stars such as this one are the best place to look for warm rocky planets, says Nicolas Cowan, an astronomer at McGill University in Montreal. Planets, even small ones, are easier to see around these dim bulbs rather than sunlike stars. NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has already shown that planets exist around similar stars,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans online< a>, but those are too far away to investigate further. “This [study] finds a nearby example,” says Cowan.< p><p>Being nearby is important for studying the atmospheres of such worlds, or learning whether they have atmospheres at all. They may not. Red dwarf stars take a long time to form; planets arise while their sun is still a puffy, temperamental ball of contracting gas. “That might bake off all the water and the atmosphere,” Cowan says. Astronomers won’t know,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap retro jordans< a>, though, until they point some big telescopes toward these worlds.< p><p>The Hubble Space Telescope might be able to get<ul>
  
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