The James Webb detects exoplanets in the Alpha Centauri system.

On August 7, NASA announced that the James Webb space telescope had discovered solid evidence of a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. The system is the closest star system to us, only 4.3 light years away. It is a triple system. On the one hand, it is Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. It would be a binary system. quite unstable, it has very powerful flares, but we know that this next Cintauri has three confirmed planets.

We did not know until now or it has not been confirmed that the other two that are similar to the Sun had a planet and finally it seems that we have evidence of the existence of one, Alpha Centauri A is the brightest star in the night sky, it is almost identical to the sun, only a little older and it is also somewhat older, its age is estimated to be about 5.2 billion years, the sun is 4.6 billion years old.

We know that there are three planets around Proxima Centauri, but this would be the first that has been discovered around those two sun-like stars. This world would be a gas giant with a mass similar to that of Saturn and would orbit in the habitable zone of its system, between one and two times the distance between the Sun and the Earth.

It is a gas giant like Saturn, we cannot inhabit it, but this does not mean that it does not have moons; Jupiter has huge moons like Ganymede, which is larger than the planet Mercury, and Saturn has Titan, which is a complex world with an atmosphere, a large amount of frozen water, lakes and hydrocarbons, a large moon the size of Mars, for example, could perfectly orbit this gaseous planet and could also have water, if it has a moon like Mars, for example, it could have perfect conditions for habitability.

Many might suggest that the Proxima Centauri system is similar to the three-body problem because it is a triple system, in this case not, because both are the binary system, the two main stars, one is like the sun and the other is an orange dwarf, which is the orange dwarfs are a little smaller than stars like the sun, but they are also stable and magnificent stars to host planets with life.

But the third is not close to the system and in fact it is so small that it does not influence them, I don't think it influences them at all, it is quite far away and is orbiting the other two, in fact, Proxima Centauri, which is that third, that red lullaby, is believed to be provisionally in this system and that one day it will end up going in another direction.