planet within a habitable orbit of one of Earth's closest stars.The body, which has yet to even be named and is being referred to currently as “planet candidate”, is in Alpha Centauri, a binary star system 4.37 light-years away from Earth.In a paper published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, an international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found a bright thermal imaging signal coming from the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A.A habitable zone covers the range of distances from a star at which liquid water could exist on a world's surface, an indicator that it could harbour alien life.The signal was derived through Near Earths in the Alpha Center Region (NEAR), a $3.
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