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Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our sun. (Not the nearest star to Earth; that's the sun!) And there's an Earth-like exoplanet around it! Proxima b (also known as Alpha Centauri Cb) is a rocky world 1.3 times the mass and 1.1 times the radius of Earth. But while this seems like an inviting duplicate of home, it is in fact a very alien world—its year is just 11 days long!

Proxima b probably has a rust-red color, and it exists in the Goldilocks Zone, meaning that if it has an atmosphere it's in the right temperature range for liquid water. An atmosphere, clouds, and seas of liquid water interrupt the rusty surface in this imagining. The texture I created also has two polar ice caps, not visible in this rendering.

Proxima b is lit by the off-frame Proxima Centauri, and prominent in the background are the binary host, Alpha Centauri A and B. The background plate of stars is a screenshot of this region of space from Celestia, but at a distance of only 4.2 light-years not much is changing in this perspective compared to the view from home.

Description
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our sun. (Not the nearest star to Earth; that's the sun!) And there's an Earth-like exoplanet around it! Proxima b (also known as Alpha Centauri Cb) is a rocky world 1.3 times the mass and 1.1 times the radius of Earth. But while this seems like an inviting duplicate of home, it is in fact a very alien world—its year is just 11 days long!

Proxima b probably has a rust-red color, and it exists in the Goldilocks Zone, meaning that if it has an atmosphere it's in the right temperature range for liquid water. An atmosphere, clouds, and seas of liquid water interrupt the rusty surface in this imagining. The texture I created also has two polar ice caps, not visible in this rendering.

Proxima b is lit by the off-frame Proxima Centauri, and prominent in the background are the binary host, Alpha Centauri A and B. The background plate of stars is a screenshot of this region of space from Celestia, but at a distance of only 4.2 light-years not much is changing in this perspective compared to the view from home.