James Webb Just Saw Alpha Centauri for the First Time _ And It_s Disturbing
Close your eyes and drift to the nearest star system beyond our Sun, where a strange discovery has astronomers questioning what they know. The James Webb Space Telescope found a possible hidden giant in Alpha Centauri A. It is a candidate gas giant, possibly Saturn-sized, orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. But when Webb looked again in early 2025, the planet seemed to vanish. This is not a ghost. It may be an orbiting world that moved too close to its star to be seen. Let the mystery of this disappearing neighbor carry you into a deep and restful sleep.
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