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Proxima Cen b

4.24 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 2016
Radius
1.02 Earth radii
Mass
1.055 (+0.055 / −0.055) Earth masses
Orbital period
11.1847 (+5.3 × 10⁻⁴ / −5.3 × 10⁻⁴) days
Semi-major axis
0.0485 (+2.9 × 10⁻⁴ / −2.9 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
218 (+18 / −18) K
Mass provenance
Msini

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00