The James Webb Space Telescope finally turned its golden mirrors toward Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth at just four light years away. What it found in August two thousand twenty four stunned scientists: a candidate planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, detected ten thousand times fainter than the star itself.
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