Proxima C: A Potential Super Earth Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri!

From what this new world could mean, to whether it's one we'll colonize, join me as we explore the Potential super Earth discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, our Neighbor Star!
Let's start at the beginning of all of this, shall we? When it comes to exploring space, there are many goals that astronomers and astrologers try to accomplish. One of the basic ones is just to learn more about the universe as a whole. Trying to "fill in the pieces" of the puzzle that is the cosmos, and especially in the most recent of years we've been doing a good job of finding things big and small across the stars. Including finding some new things in our very own solar system.
But the other main goal that has taken up a lot of our time is the search for planets that could not just house life, but also, be a potential colony point for humanity should the need and technology arise. We've looked across the stars and have found many planets that COULD be what we are looking for, but in terms of "immediate evacuation" the best contender that we have is the Alpha Centauri System. We've talked about this star and its planets before, but to give you the jist of it, there is a star within this system we call Proxima Centauri. It's a Red-Dwarf star that is smaller than our sun, and also emits less heat than the sun we have.
As we started to observe this system we found a planet we call Proxima Centauri B. This planet was within the "Habitable Zone" of the star, and given what we know about it so far, it could just be the planet that we go to in order to live amongst the stars in more than one place. In fact, many sci-fi stories have used the Alpha Centauri system as a place where a colony has been formed, including the recent Netflix reboot of Lost In Space.
Anyway, a lot of research has gone into not just studying Proxima Centauri B, but also, trying to find ways to get there in a quicker amount of time. You see, Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away from Earth. That may not sound like a lot, but at our best speeds it'd take tens of thousands of years depending on the craft we used and whether we'd be going at top speeds of the best craft that we have. Obviously, not a good option. There are initiatives to try and get there faster, including Breakthrough Starshot, but whether it works or not is very much up in the air.
However, while we are still trying to figure out how we get to Proxima Centuari B, we're still studying the planet and the system itself to see how much information can be found out about it, including whether we can indeed live there. As this research was going on in 2019, a signal suddenly reached Earth that hinted at something we didn't know about before.
There's a third planet near Proxima Centauri:
“We are pleased to show you, for the first time, what is for us a new candidate planet around Proxima that we call Proxima c,” Mario Damasso of Italy’s Observatory of Turin initially announced during the 2019 Breakthrough Discuss conference. A paper describing the potential planet appears today in the journal Science Advances.
“It is only a candidate,” Damasso continued. “This is very important to underline.”
Why do they say it's only a "candidate"? That would be because we can't definitively confirm that it is a planet. We know that SOMETHING else is orbiting the star known as Proxima Centauri, but that doesn't mean it's definitively a planet. Because of the system itself, our distance from it, and our own technology at the moment, there is some margin for error as to what it could be.
I know that may sound a bit pessimistic, but think about it like this, if we were able to map everything so well...why didn't we know about this sooner? I mean, we've known about Proxima Centauri and Proxima Centauri B for some time now, right? So how could we not know about this potential extra planet?
Star mapping is not an exact science despite what people would love to tell you. And as others who have confirmed the strange signal near the star will tell you, the system may hold many more suprises:
"Even the closest planetary system to us may retain interesting surprises," said Fabio Del Sordo in an email, study author and postdoctoral researcher in the department of physics at the University of Crete. "Proxima Centauri hosts a planetary system that is much more complex than we knew, and we do not know how many unknown features are waiting to be discovered."
So, let's assume that this IS indeed a planet, what do we know about it based on the information we have gotten from these signals? Well, first and foremost, the planet is huge. It's what we call a "Super Earth", or a planet that could be like Earth in potentia, but is so massive that it breaks the scales.
In the case of the now dubbed Proxima C, the planet is roughly at 6 times the size of Earth. To be clear, that's a big planet, however, the reason it's dubbed a "Super Earth"..

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