Are there Earthlike Planets in the Alpha Centauri System?

On this episode of SpaceBites, Snack-Sized Space Science, Dr. Debra Fischer and PhD student Lily Zhao discuss how their data analysis of the nearby Alpha Centauri system suggests the likelihood Earthlike planets in the habitable zones of Alpha Cen A and Alpha Cen B.

On this episode of SpaceBites, Snack-Sized Space Science, Dr. Debra Fischer and PhD student Lily Zhao discuss their analysis of ground-based telescope data on the nearby Alpha Centauri system and its implications for the presence of Earthlike planets in the habitable zones of Alpha Cen A and Alpha Cen B.

To learn more about Debra Fischer and her work: http://exoplanets.astro.yale.edu/people/dfischer.php

To learn more about The BoldlyGo Institute: http://boldlygo.org/

To learn more about Project Blue, BoldlyGo's current mission that Dr. Fischer talks about in this video: http://www.projectblue.org/