"When I was a child, I always looked through the alpha center" - says Edward Bendak, who discovered in his lifetime Alpha Center is actually a two star.
More than 30 years later, Bendak is now working at NASA's Ames Research Center, and the idea is that Alpha Center hides a more intriguing topic than this. There is a possibility of a planet rotating around one of the two, which is full of life, that the world seems stuck to it.
And since it's only 4.4 light-years away, we might be able to create a search engine that can collect data on reaching this planet within decades. Stephen Hawking is planning such a plan to cost billions of dollars. Within a generation, we have the possibility to know the details of this planet.