This star is 124 LY away. If we launched our fastest ever probe in that direction, which was New Horizons, it would take 2.2 million years for it to reach the s

This star is 124 LY away. If we launched our fastest ever probe in that direction, which was New Horizons, it would take 2.2 million years for it to reach the system. Assuming the probe could then be still operational to transmit back data, it would then take 124 years for the data to be received. So the next step would be to build better and better telescopes to observe these planets, learn about their composition, and inspire people to study and fund the sciences. There are some proposals of how to build fast probes that could visit very close star systems that could maybe, maybe reach a the 4 LY to Proxima Centuri within a human lifetime. But 124 LY is so far that even the Starshot proposal would take nearly 800 years to receive data back. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot