The Pale Red Dot: A Planet Called Proxima b

The announcement was made just days ago. Co-discoverer Michael Endl tells us about the discovery of a roughly Earth-mass planet orbiting in the habitable zone of the closest star to our own. Juno has made its first science flyby of Jupiter. Emily Lakdawalla gives us an early report. Are you ready for the first interplanetary Olympics? Bruce and Mat review the listener-submitted out-of-this-world sports on What’s Up. Bill Nye is away this week. Enter the contest and find related links here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2016/0829-michael-endl-proxima-b.html