Very Large Telescope Will Soon Locate Habitable Planets

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 16:01 in Astronomy & Space

The European Southern Observatory has secured funding to make improvements to its Very Large Telescope (or VLT) with the hope of getting a better look at Proxima B. First spotted last year in the Alpha Centauri system, Proxima B is the closest potentially life sustaining exoplanet we've seen so far.

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