{"id":785092,"date":"2024-07-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785092"},"modified":"2024-07-02T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:00:00","slug":"what-netflixs-3-body-problem-gets-right-about-stars-nearby-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785092","title":{"rendered":"What Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ gets right about stars nearby : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Discovered in 2016, a roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system.
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Discovered in 2016, a roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system.<\/p>\n

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Way before Short Wave<\/em> co-host Regina G. Barber became a scientist, she was a lover of science fiction. So when she heard about Netflix’s series ‘3 Body Problem’ \u2014 in which the world’s leading scientists race to solve an interstellar mystery that spans decades \u2014 she was hooked.<\/p>\n

The series is based on a bestselling trilogy written by Chinese author and engineer Liu Cixin and translated by Ken Liu. But it also draws from some very real scientific concepts.<\/p>\n