Proxima Planet Hunt

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Proxima Centauri is our nearest star but we still don't know whether it has any planets. Prof Kipping discusses our planet hunting campaign using the space telescope MOST and gives you the latest news.

::More about this Video::

► Gillon et al. (2016), "Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star": http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17448.html ► Muirhead at al. (2012), "Characterizing the Cool KOIs III. KOI-961: A Small Star with Large Proper Motion and Three Small Planets": http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2189 ► MOST telescope homepage: http://most.astro.ubc.ca ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk

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