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What does Mayor believe is the time needed to reach an exoplanet with the means we have today?

  • Weeks

  • Centuries

  • Decades

  • Hundreds of millions of days

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Mayor believes that it would take hundreds of millions of days to reach an exoplanet with the means we have today. This is because the nearest exoplanet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which is about 4.2 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, which is about 6 trillion miles.
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