Artist impression. No real image of Proxima Centauri b exists yet.
exoplanet · 4.2 light years from Earth
Proxima Centauri b
The nearest exoplanet, a tidally locked rocky world in the habitable zone of a flaring red dwarf.
- Type
- Exoplanet
- Orbits
- Proxima Centauri
- Distance
- 4.2 light years
- Diameter
- about 13,600 km (estimated)
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Discovered
- 2016
- Rotation
- Tidally locked: one side always faces its star
About Proxima Centauri b
- The nearest known exoplanet, announced in 2016.
- A year there lasts just over 11 days.
- In IKAREE, Proxima Gateway is humanity's first port beyond the Sun.
Proxima Gateway
Humanity's first interstellar outpost: a long-spined relay and docking platform with maroon solar wings, holding orbit above Proxima Centauri b.. Location in the game: Orbit of Proxima Centauri b, 4.24 light years from Earth.
Visit Proxima Centauri b in VR
In IKAREE, Proxima Centauri b is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Proxima Centauri b. Warp seven. Engage.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Proxima Centauri b. Warp seven. Engaging.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Proxima Centauri b.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
