"European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. ... a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B every 3.2 days."

Holy snot. Not a vacation spot, though you'd get a good tan, I expect.

"This is the first planet with a mass similar to Earth ever found around a star like the Sun. Its orbit is very close to its star and it must be much too hot for life as we know it."

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Anyway, at 55 mph, it would take a mere 52 million years to get there.