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Due ricercatori di Harvard hanno immaginato un sistema per scoprire se Proxima B, il pianeta individuato di recente in orbita nella zona abitabile di Proxima Centauri, dispone di un’atmosfera. Business Insider riassume la proposta.

Two researchers at Harvard believe that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch in 2018, could get the job done in record time, and by merely sampling the star system’s light.

“It would only take [11 days’] worth of observing time,” Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told Business Insider.