Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun.

In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to a glowing fantasyland called Pandora, the made-up moon of an imaginary Jupiter-like planet.

It turns out that, in real life, a gas giant planet actually seems to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A, according to astronomers who peered at it with the James Webb Space Telescope.

What's more, the planet apparently orbits at a distance from the star where temperatures might be cozy enough for life, according to a pair of reports accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters .

And some scientists see no reason it couldn't have a moon, just like in Avatar.

"It probably does have moons," says Charl

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