Articles tagged: Pale Red Dot campaign

• 23 June 2017 Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?

  ... more Earth-like worlds around some of our nearest stellar neighbours. Last January, the Pale Red Dot campaign began a unique outreach campaign that allowed the general public to follow scientists from around the globe as they searched for...

  • Barnard's Star
  • Open Notebook Science experiment
  • Pale Red Dot campaign
  • Proxima Centauri
  • Ross 154
• 25 August 2016 Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star

  ...-Escudé of Queen Mary, University of London, used HARPS as part of an ongoing project to observe Proxima Centauri called the Pale Red Dot campaign. "The first hints of a possible planet were spotted back in 2013, but the detection was not convincing...

  • exoplanet
  • HARPS spectrograph
  • Pale Red Dot campaign
  • Proxima b
  • Proxima Centauri