James Webb Just Saw Proxima Centauri for The First Time - And It's Terrifying

James Webb Just Saw Proxima Centauri for The First Time - And It's Terrifying A magnetic field really was measured at Proxima Centauri. That part of the headline is true. What almost nobody was told is that the field belongs to the star, not to any of its planets — and once you understand how magnetospheres actually work, that detail turns the entire story upside down. This is the version the press release compressed out. Over 10 chapters we go through the real measurements: the 200-gauss surface field mapped by Zeeman–Doppler Imaging, the radio signal everyone mistranslated, the naked-eye superflare of March 2016, the ozone chemistry that decides whether anything survives, the sixth-root law that breaks the fantasy, and the reason a magnetic field would not have protected Proxima b from the thing actually doing the damage. No invented science. No fake catastrophe. Every number in this video comes from published work, and where the literature disagrees, I give you the range instead of the verdict. The uncomfortable part isn't that the science is scary. It's that the science was public the whole time.