Alpha Centauri Bb
Disproven exoplanet
Alpha Centauri Bb (α Cen Bb) was a proposed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main-sequence star Alpha Centauri B (Toliman), located 4.37 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus, but there has not been enough evidence to support the claim. The claimed discovery of the planet was announced in October 2012 by a team of European observers, and the finding received widespread media attention.
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Alpha Centauri Bb
Disproven exoplanet
Alpha Centauri Bb (α Cen Bb) was a proposed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main-sequence star Alpha Centauri B (Toliman), located 4.37 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus, but there has not been enough evidence to support the claim. The claimed discovery of the planet was announced in October 2012 by a team of European observers, and the finding received widespread media attention.
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Alpha Centauri Bb (α Cen Bb) was a proposed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main-sequence star Alpha Centauri B (Toliman), located 4.37 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus, but there has not been enough evidence to support the claim. The claimed discovery of the planet was announced in October 2012 by a team of European observers, and the finding received widespread media attention. However, the announcement was met with scepticism by some astronomers, who thought that the European team was over-interpreting its data. In October 2015, astronomers from the University of Oxford published a scientific paper disproving the existence of the planet. They observed that an identical statistical analysis of randomly-generated synthetic data gave the same results as the actual astronomical data. This led Xavier Dumusque, the lead author of the original paper, to concede "We are not 100 percent sure, but probably the planet is not there."
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