Evidence of a Planet Near Alpha Centauri 🌌

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new evidence for a large planet in the Alpha Centauri system near us
Links:
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-finds-new-evidence-for-planet-around-closest-solar-twin/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03814
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03812
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add880/meta
Other videos:
https://youtu.be/Gwz1t2NVACY
https://youtu.be/pmIWzTJYHMI
https://youtu.be/wPQ33axCFpQ
#alphacentauri #planet #jameswebbspacetelescope

0:00 Alpha centauri surprise!
0:40 What we know about the star system so far
2:57 Potential detection in 2019
3:35 Why JWST is so good at this but there were still challenges
4:55 Methods used to observe this star
5:30 Surprise results and the initial analysis
8:00 Non detection at later dates was important! Orbits worked out
9:15 What we know about the planet so far
11:30 Could this be rings?
12:30 What this implies and conclusions
13:30 What's next?

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Credit:
Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani CC BY 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri#/media/File:The_sky_around_Alpha_Centauri_and_Proxima_Centauri_(annotated)_(eso1629f).jpg

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