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“Proxima b” features information about first exoplanets

Kepler-186f (Courtesy NASA)
Exoplanet Kepler-186f (Courtesy NASA)

FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Dr. Paul Adams, dean of the College of Education at Fort Hays State University, will present “Proxima b — To Be, or Not to b, a Habitable Planet?” at the Science Café at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, at Gella’s Diner, 117 East 11th St. in Hays.

“Proxima b” features information on the first exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than the sun) that were found beginning about 20 years ago.

Learn about these giant gas balls and a potentially habitable planet at the presentation.

The presentation, sponsored by FHSU’s Science and Mathematics Education Institute, is free and open to the public.

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