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Alpha Centauri planet hunt

new instrument installed on the Very Large Telescope in Chile has completed a 100-hour campaign looking for planets in the Alpha Centauri system. While a planet has already been found orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, it is probably dessicated due to

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