ESO/M. Kornmesser
In my 2013 science-fiction novel Proxima I imagined a habitable planet orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system. Human colonists call this world Per Ardua, after the – “through struggle to the stars”.
Fiction has now turned into partial fact with the discovery of a planet in this very spot by a team of astronomers led by . They have given it the more functional name Proxima b.
It is fascinating to see my imagined world…
