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Aliens must be out there The sun is over Earth’s horizon as seen from aboard the International Space Station above a point in southwestern Minnesota, May 21, 2013. REUTERS/NASA Written By 12th Feb 2021 The sun is not special. I know that’s a churlish thing to say about everyone’s favourite celestial body, our planet’s blazing engine and eternal clock, giver of light, life and spectacular Instagram backdrops. Awesome as it is, though, the sun is still a pretty ordinary star, one of an es...

Perhaps most intriguingly, the way that the planet was discovered is unprecedented

Aliens must be out there What if were just doing a slapdash job of looking for them?  By Farhad Manjoo New York Times February 12, 2021 — 11:24am Text size Copy shortlink: The sun is not special. I know thats a c...

The search for life in space just took a big leap forward. Researchers working on the New Earths in the Alpha Centauri Region (NEAR) project, funded by entrepreneur Yuri Milners Breakthrough Initiatives, have potentially discovered a new planet in the habitable zone of the nearby star Alpha Centauri A, located 4.37 light-years from Earth. Their report was published in the Nature Communications journal this week. In an image taken of the star via the European Southern Observatorys (ESO) Very La...

The sun is not special. I know that’s a churlish thing to say about everyone’s favorite celestial body, our planet’s blazing engine and eternal clock, giver of light, life and spectacular Instagram backdrops. Awesome as it is, though, the sun is still a pretty ordinary star, one of an estimated 100 billion to 400 billion in the Milky Way galaxy alone. And the Milky Way is itself just one galaxy among hundreds of billions or perhaps trillions in the observable universe. Then there’s Eart...

Planet 5-7 times size of Earth found in the nearest star system? Planet 5-7 times size of Earth found in the nearest star system? Chethan Kumar | TNN | Feb 11, 2021, 22:30 IST Representative image Astronomers from Breakthrough Watch, the global astronomical programme looking for Earth-like planets around nearby stars say there’s an “intriguing possibility” of them having observed a planet roughly five to seven times the size of Earth orbiting within the habitable zone of the nearest sun...

New technology promises authentic images of the exoplanets in our neighbouring star system Alpha Centauri. The dress rehearsal immediately delivered something that makes astronomers dream of a great discovery. We can all observe our solar system’s planets and dwarf planets with telescopes: Even the distant Pluto appears as a blurred sphere on the Hubble space telescope’s images. But can today’s instruments also take pictures of planets orbiting other stars? We now know more than 4000 such...

Object could be a prime candidate for detailed study

Atmospheric pollution could be the sign of advanced extraterrestrial civilization This study is the first time pollution has been examined as a possible technosignature. Artist’s illustration of a technologically advanced exoplanet. The colors are exaggerated to show the industrial pollution, which otherwise is not visible. Credits: NASA/Jay Freidlander Nitrogen dioxide is part of a group of gaseous air pollutants produced due to road traffic and other fossil fuel combustion processes. In the...

ExtremeTech Astronomers Detect Another Possible Exoplanet Right Next Door By Ryan Whitwam on February 11, 2021 at 1:35 pm This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the last few decades, we’ve gone from zero known exoplanets to more than 4,000. Scientists have even found a few orbiting the closest stars to our own. A project called Near Earths in the Alpha Center Region (NEAR) has just spotted tantalizing signals that could point t...