Centauri Dreams – Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

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• Centauri Dreams – Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

  by Paul Gilster | Oct 4, 2024 | 14 Comments Is it possible that we can account for the Fermi paradox by looking to our own behavior as a species? Some science fiction of the 1950s pointed in that dire...

• Proxima Centauri b: Artificial Illumination as a Technosignature | Centauri Dreams

  Michael: Proxima is a long way from the A-B pair (about 12,500 AU) as I recall. The combined light from A and B is about twice that of the sun. The full moon is 398,110 times dimmer than the s...

• TOLIMAN Targets Centauri A/B Planets | Centauri Dreams

  Afterthought on November 17, 2021 at 22:11 Good news Time to put TOLIMAN on the list? Paul Gilster on November 18, 2021 at 9:43 Yes, its now a...

• The Odds on Alpha Centauri | Centauri Dreams

  How extraordinary that the nearest star to Earth is actually a triple system, the tight central binary visually merged as one bright object, the third star lost in the background field but still a rel...

• Modeling a Habitable Planet at Centauri A/B | Centauri Dreams

  Why is it so difficult to detect planets around Alpha Centauri? Proxima Centauri is one thing; we’ve found interesting worlds there, though this small, dim star has been a tough target, examined throu...

• Close Stellar Encounters and Earth’s Orbit | Centauri Dreams

  Galaxies look fixed in astronomical photos, but of course they’re dynamic systems ever in motion. The closest stars to Earth at Alpha Centauri will eventually close to within about 3 light years if we...