Readers unimpressed by Earth’s newest neighbor
Your letters and comments on the September 17, 2016, issue of Science News
Buzzkill
Astronomers confirmed the existence of an exoplanet, Proxima b, only 4.2 light-years from Earth, Christopher Crockett reported in “Planet orbits sun’s nearest neighbor” (SN: 9/17/16, p. 6).
Some readers thought there was too much excitement over the new potentially habitable planet.