On Oct 17, 11:20*am, wrote:
I'd like to know why they have just found a planet at Alpha Centauri,
our nearest star, when they have been searching the skies for years
and have found 600 or so planets (iirc). it must've been the first
place they looked, mustn't it? Strikes me as odd.

Perhaps it was simply too obvious, something like Guth-Venus as been
for more than a dozen years.

“GuthVenus” 1:1, plus 10x resample/enlargement of the area in
question:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1027362...79402364691314

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