SPACE/ALPHA CENTAURI SYSTEM, 2103 AD.

太空/半马人座阿尔法星系内 公元2103年

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Fortunately, if life has taken root in the Alpha Centauri system, it is not likely to suffer this fate.

值得庆幸的是，如果半人马座阿尔法星系存在生命，它们遭受此厄运的可能性微乎其微。

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That's not to say that Alpha Centauri doesn't have a habitable world of some kind—it would just have to be a planet like our own, rather than a moon.

但这并不代表半人马座阿尔法星不具有某种适宜居住的环境——它最好是类似于我们地球的行星，而不是卫星。

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Alpha Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, is four light years away.

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The new planet around Alpha Centauri B matches Earth only in terms of its mass - making it among the smallest exoplanets we know of.

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And it would also give us insight into what would be needed to think about even sending a probe to Alpha Centauri some 4.37 light years distant.

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