ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1702/
Kind regards,
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
9 January 2017
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