We Really Don’t Know What Life Is
An Existential Problem in the Search for Alien Life--We don’t really know what life is in the first place, argues Jaime Green for The Atlantic. "In 2020, a team of researchers found something surprising in the high clouds of Venus. Earth-based telescopes detected the spectral signature of phosphine, a simple molecule that should have no business persisting in those extremely acidic clouds. Cautiously excited, the researchers wrote that the phosphine could be the result of “unknown photochemistry or geochemistry”—or, they noted almost coyly, 'possibly life'."
We’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies, reports Owen Johnson for The Conversation.
Astronomers Discover Rare Solar System Where Planets Orbit in Mathematical Harmony--The “resonant” planets could provide insight about how such systems form and evolve—and why our own solar system is not synced up, reports Will Sullivan for Smithsonian Magazine. “It’s like looking at a fossil,” Rafael Luque, a co-author of the study and astronomer at the University of Chicago, says of the distant planetary system to the New York Times’ Katrina Miller. “The orbits of the planets today are the same as they were a billion years ago.
Earth-like planets may be able to form in some very extreme environments. The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of water and other molecules in the inner region of a hot protoplanetary disk suggests that rocky, Earth-like planets may be able to form in some very extreme environments, reports Live Science. "The JWST is the only telescope with the spatial resolution and sensitivity to study planet-forming disks in massive star-forming regions," team leader María Claudia Ramírez-Tannus, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, said in a statement.
Earth-like planets may be able to form in some very extreme environments. The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of water and other molecules in the inner region of a hot protoplanetary disk suggests that rocky, Earth-like planets may be able to form in some very extreme environments, reports Live Science.
Astronomers Illuminate Mysterious Dark Region of Milky Way--A University of Florida research team harnesses the James Webb Space Telescope to explore a galactic enigma--In a recent study led by University of Florida astronomer ADAM GINSBURG, groundbreaking findings shed light on a mysterious dark region at the center of the Milky Way. The turbulent gas cloud, playfully nicknamed “The Brick” due to its opacity, has sparked lively debates within the scientific community for years.
Hundreds of Dead Stars Discovered Pulsing Gamma Rays in Massive Sky Survey, reports Science Alert. "a small number of pulsars can spit out the most powerful known radiation in the Universe – gamma rays. Gamma-ray pulsars accelerate particles to extremely high energies in their powerful magnetic fields, resulting in bursts of powerful, invisible light."
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Sure, why not? Right after we pass . We ate already experiencing life now. What was the meaning of it however, Will be explained later.