Pale blue dot, meet pale red dot. Astronomers have spent decades scouring the skies looking for Earth-sized planets around distant stars. And now they've found one, sitting smack in the habitable ...

[2] The name Pale Red Dot reflects Carl Sagan’s famous reference to the Earth as a pale blue dot . As Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star it will bathe its orbiting planet in a pale red glow.

The Pale Red Dot project is the European Southern Observatory’s search for Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. The small red dwarf star is just 4.2 ...

The Pale Red Dot project is the European Southern Observatory’s search for Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. The small red dwarf star is just 4.2 ...

“It was just this pale, red dot. We could tell it was really small, just a tiny galaxy in the first 400 million years of the universe,” Coe says in a statement.

If you’re lucky and sharp-eyed, you might be able to spot a dim, pale, red dot in the pre-dawn sky; that’s Mercury, the last of the five planets to rotate into view.

The Pale Red Dot project is the European Southern Observatory’s search for Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. The small red dwarf star is just 4.2 ...