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Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

(www.nytimes.com)
168 points julienchastang | 1 comments | 16 Apr 25 23:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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damnitbuilds ◴[17 Apr 25 01:09 UTC] No.43712047[source]▶
What now? How do we confirm or disprove life there?

Existing telescopes?

Or do we need to design one quick, for Starship to take up next year?

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1. kulahan ◴[17 Apr 25 01:32 UTC] No.43712201[source]▶
From TFA, they’re going to continue observing it with JWST to gather more data. New telescopes dedicated to detecting life are being built now - they were basically right behind dark matter in scientific interest.

They will also start to simulate hycean planets to see if these chemicals behave the same way there as they do on Earth to determine if there is some non-biological reason why they could detect this stuff.