The Alpha Centauri System, the closest star system to our own solar system, has made several appearances in science fiction and pop culture, mostly as a symbol for potential future interstellar travel or even as home to planets teeming with life. However, reality is a little different than what Hollywood has dreamed up.

This chaotic system contains two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, and a faint red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the only star of the system confirmed to host three confirmed planets.

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are now providing the strongest evidence to date of a gas giant planet surrounding Alpha Centauri A.