Centauri Dreams – Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

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• Centauri Dreams – Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

  by Paul Gilster | Feb 25, 2026 | 5 Comments How we think intersects with the language we think in. Consider the verb in classical Greek, a linguistic tool so complex that it surely allows shadings of ...

• 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...