Find on an alien planet 124 light years distant the footprints of two compounds that on earth are produced only by life formsmainly from microorganisms like the Fitoplankton Marino. The discovery, published by the British University of Cambridge on The Astrophysical Journal Letters, is based on the collected data of the James Webb spatial telescope And it is theMORE PROMOTTENT INDIVERSand of the possible existence of life forms in a planet external to the Solar System. The same researchers observe that Caution is a must and that they will be Further observations requiredbut on the university website say that “the results are the strongest proof that life can exist on a planet outside our solar system”.
The planet is called K2-18B and orbit around his star in the habitable areathat is, at a distance that can have liquid water on the surface. It is one old knowledge of astronomers because from the first observations made in 2016 and 2017 by the Hubble Telescope, of Esa and Nasa, it appeared that the planet was one super earththat is, a rocky planet with larger dimensions of ours, able to have waterfall and one temperature such as to encourage life. His atmosphere The molecular signature of the water vaporwhich also indicated the presence of hydrogen and helium.
Soon K2-18b lit the attention of planetologists around the world, but in 2024, however, one cold shower The enthusiasm of the researchers died, after the research based on the observations of the Webb telescope and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters from the group of the California University to Riverside coordinated by Shang-Min Tsai, indicated that the possible signatures of life observed until then then they were not reliable.
Now the group led by Nikku Madhusudhan of the Institute of Astronomy of Cambridge, in collaboration with Space Telescope Science Institute and the British universities of Cardiff and Birmingham, always thanks to the data of the web telescope has found in the atmosphere of K2-18B also the footprints of Dimethytical sulphide (DMS) and of the Dimethyle disolfuro (DMDS).
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