There’s a chance these undetected worlds are in the habitable zone, the region around a star most likely to support life as we know it. Still, planets tend not to be loners, so the Alpha Centauri system should have more. There is perhaps lava floating on the planet,” says Dumusque.
“The surface temperature must be hundreds – thousands – of degrees. However, with a “year” of just over three Earth days, this rocky body is not our planet’s twin. The team calculates that the new planet is 1.13 times the mass of Earth, which means it is likely to have a rocky composition.
Now, this Earth-like planet is only really vaguely Earth-like. “So even if the discovery just stands perfectly normally in the discoveries we have had up to now, it’s a landmark discovery, because it’s very low-mass and it’s our closest neighbour.”
“Alpha Centauri B is of course a very special case – it’s our next door neighbour,” said Stephane Udry of the Observatory in Geneva and senior author of the paper. Cassiopeia’s sixth bright point of light would be our Sun and its entire planetary system. Looking out from Alpha Centauri B b and any other planets in that system, Cassiopeia would gain a sixth star, six times brighter than the other five, becoming not a W but a sinuous snake or a winding river. One of the few major differences would be in the constellation Cassiopeia, which from Earth appears as a 5-starred “W” in the northern sky. From the planet’s broiling surface, one could see familiar sights such as the Big Dipper and Orion the Hunter, looking just as they do to our eyes here. In galactic terms, the new planet we’ve found there is so very near our own that its night sky shares most of Earth’s constellations. It is therefore outside the “habitable zone” denoting the possibility of life, as the researchers report in Nature.įor a more poetic take, there’s Centauri Dreams:Īnyone in the Southern Hemisphere can look up on a clear night and easily see Alpha Centauri - to the naked eye, the three suns merge into one of the brightest stars in Earth’s sky, a single golden point piercing the foot of the constellation Centaurus, a few degrees away from the Southern Cross. The planet has at minimum the same mass as Earth, but circles its star far closer than Mercury orbits our Sun. But it might lead the way to habitable planets nearby. Yes, the planet is probably uninhabitable. It’s only four light years away, and now, it has a planet. It was the star at the center of the Tranformers’ universe, the destination of the Lost in Space crew and the sun of James Cameron’s Avatar. When I started this project it was NOT my intention to do every single female character in Bubblegum Crisis.Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus. I have absolutely NO intention of doing, say, Naomi, or Sho’s mom, or Kate Madigan. Lisa, well…she’s just different enough that part of me just kinda had to =PĪs with Nene, my main challenge was finding a company that does a 56cm body (they’re the same height in the series). However, with Lisa there was the added challenge of finding a company that does that height AND does brown skin. Either that, or pay out the nose for somebody to spray the body a dark color and deal with the color eventually flaking off. So, without further ado, here is Lisa’s unboxing! Fortunately, Impldoll fit the bill…AND they had a head sculpt that I liked: Iris! So, I went ahead and put Iris on layaway via Alice’s Collections, and after three months of waiting, I randomly got an e-mail giving me the tracking number…which told me the doll was already delivered! After a brief panic I quickly deduced that the front office of my apartment complex had probably signed for it and didn’t tell me (which indeed was the case). Lisa’s box, flipped upside-down to hide my address.īox within a box! And unlike other doll companies, whose boxes have a lid, this one just slides out of the cover. Huh, looks like the journey was a little rough on her, huh? XDĬertificate of authentication, along with a little booklet with information about all of Impldoll’s BJDs. I really wish they would have protected the feet better. She seems a bit loosely strung to me, but still stood up just fine! Oh well, one less pair for me to store away, I guess, lol. I got a very nice wig for Lisa from Fatiao on Etsy, and spent a bit of time cutting it to the appropriate length.