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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, February 10th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a possible third planet has been spotted orbiting Proxima Centauri, plus a new record has just been set by a nuclear fusion lab in the UK, and, just in time for the holiday, a brief history

of Valentine's Meat Juice. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

A third planet has possibly been found orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun.

Quoting the Verge, located a little more than four light years from Earth,

Proxima Centauri has long captured the imagination of scientists and sci-fi enthusiasts as a prime

place to visit if we ever venture far outside our solar system. The celestial object became

even more intriguing in 2016 when astronomers found a planet orbiting it, called Proxima B. The planet is

located in the star's habitable zone, where temperatures may be just right for water to pool on the

surface. And just a few years later,

a second planet called Proxima C was discovered around the star 2, end quotes. And now, what would

be called Proxima D has potentially been discovered as well. It would be among the smallest exoplanets

ever found, but would cause quite a big stir.

The discovery was made by Zhao Ferreya and his team in Portugal when they were using the

European Southern Observatory's very large telescope to confirm the presence of Proxima B in 2019.

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