Tint of life: Color catalog built to find frozen worlds
As ground-based and space telescopes improve, astronomers need a color-coded guide to compare Earth’s biological microbes to cold, distant exoplanets to grasp their composition.
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As ground-based and space telescopes improve, astronomers need a color-coded guide to compare Earth’s biological microbes to cold, distant exoplanets to grasp their composition.
Aided by microbes found in the subarctic conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay, an international team of scientists has created the first color catalog of icy pla
If the new state of matter of ice-19 was present in the cores of alien worlds, it would generate a magnetic field that would create life.
In Arktis und Antarktis sind fast 80 Prozent des Süßwassers der Erde gebunden. Winde peitschen mit 320 Stundenkilometern über die teils kilometerdicken Eispanzer – bei minus 70 Grad Celsius. Im Winter geht die Sonne monatelang nicht auf, während spektakuläre Polarlic...