“The lifetime of Proxima (small red sun 4.25 light-years from Earth) is several trillion years,
almost a thousand times longer than the remaining lifetime of our Sun. A habitable
rocky planet around Proxima would be the most natural location to where our
civilization could aspire to move after the Sun will die, five billion years from now.”

- Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Ph.D., Astronomy Chair, Harvard University,
and Chair, Breakthrough Starshot Initiative

Artist’s impression of the Earth-like exoplanet (upper right) discovered
orbiting Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf that the ESO has been studying
with the La Silla Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher
(HARPS) for years. Proxima Centauri has two other star companions: Alpha
Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. Illustration by ESO, European Southern Observatory.
See: ESO. Also see Nature.

Illustration of laser array beaming photons at small, unmanned
spacecraft to accelerate up to 30% the speed of light, opening up
the possibility of interstellar research to nearby stars. Graphic by
Experimental Cosmology Group at the Univ. of California – Santa Barbara.
See: Interstellar Travel with Laser Light Propulsion.