Proxima b Transit Search: Results!

For the last month, the Cool Worlds Lab has been working hard to finish our analysis of space-based data to solve whether the recently discovered exoplanet, Proxima b, transits its parent star or not. Prof Kipping explains the roller-coaster of emotions in trying to solve this mystery and reveals the final answer.

::More about this Video::

► Kipping et al. (2016), "No Conclusive Evidence for Transits of Proxima b in MOST photometry": https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08718
► Proxima b data and results are available to download at https://github.com/CoolWorlds/Proxima
► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk

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