Sascha Quanz

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Sascha Quanz is a prominent planet researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich, known for his contributions to the study of exoplanets and their habitability. His work focuses on the challenging task of detecting potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri star system, which is the closest star system to Earth, located just 4.3 light-years away. Quanz has been involved in innovative observational strategies, utilizing advanced telescopes like the Very Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope to search for and analyze planetary candidates. Recently, he was in the news for discussing the implications of a newly discovered gas giant candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A, which could complicate the search for habitable worlds in that system.